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this is one hypothesis, the excess deaths are effectively premature deaths and over months, year on year the average will float out. it doesnt change anything, people still died and strategy was misguided, just how it looks.

true to a point. its basic data "this many more deaths that the 5-year average", so normallised it doesnt tell us much. first question is why? medical statisticians look for reasons to attribute to it, flu, cold winters, or in this case covid.

partially true. something we and most civilised countries dont do is hide deaths. people know about them, they are fairly meticulously recorded. cause of death and comorbidities (additional illness) are subject to much more variation.

excess deaths is great for normalisation of the data across countries. i see this looking at the source ONS datasets, subtract recorded covid deaths from the total excess deaths, left with non-covid excess.

quite old news. mostly caused by NHS policy to push people into care homes or not take admissions. something not shown by Sky and i doubt ONS, is the proportion of non-covid excess deaths, about 40% when i last look (June data).