Looking at the CDC excess death numbers versus the mortality rate, it looks like COVID-19 is saving lives as well as taking lives. Excess death percentages greater than the mortality rate percentage mean less people are dying of other causes (probably due to less social contact).

Of course the excess death numbers only account for death due to contracting COVID-19, and not due to side effects of the government and media handling of COVID-19 (suicides, starvation, exposure, etc.).