So if I’m understanding you correctly, you went from
you still have to account for the fact that covid might kill an old person that would otherwise die to influenza in a month or two
thinking covid wasn’t causing any/many additional deaths per year, just speeding them up a little
to providing a graph that shows thousands of extra people are dying each year
The increase of 2022 and 2021 was expected due to general decline of normal viruses (caused by covid measurements)
to saying all those extra deaths were because people weren’t getting sick from normal diseases, despite us not seeing much of a drop in 2020 from people not getting those diseases during the covid restrictions. But now that the restrictions are lifted and they’re being exposed to those normal diseases (and covid) again, all/most of theses extra deaths are from the normal diseases and have nothing to do with covid.
Norway absolutely did a better job at handling covid than the US, but the US’s death rate seems to just be permanently higher now as a direct result of covid. Maybe removing all restrictions was the right thing to do, but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that it comes at the cost of several thousand more people dying each year, just in Norway.