This is pretty astonishing. This stuck out for me:

...deaths from diabetes were up by a staggering 19 per cent

The can only, in my mind anyway, be explained by people not getting timely, preventative care, presumably due to lockdowns.

Clearly, they don't want to know. It's the sunken-costs syndrome - We've invested so much into lockdowns, vaccines, PR telling people we're keeping them safe, vilification of anyone questioning this - last thing on earth we need is an inquiry telling us that all that was a terrible mistake.

It's a pretty big fuck up, that's for sure. Nobody wants to be held responsible for that if they can help it.

Here's an article on US excess deaths in 2022

US has suffered more than 1m excess deaths during pandemic, CDC finds

It does recognize that part of these excess deaths may have been due to lockdowns and other covid measures:

The deaths are mainly attributable to Covid-19, as well as conditions that may have resulted from delayed medical care and overwhelmed health systems.

But then it goes on to quote an Expert:

“Whenever we hear that another 100,000 people died of Covid, there’s a reliable chorus of naysayers who claim that these deaths would’ve happened anyway,” Faust said. “Excess deaths cuts through that, because it’s about reporting whether the total number of deaths is out of the ordinary.”

“All-cause excess mortality is one of the most reliable and unbiased ways to look at the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

This statement, on the surface, would be read by most as to blame covid entirely for the excess deaths.

The Guardian, to its credit, does point out the obvious repeatedly in the article:

These figures can reveal the truer toll of Covid – including deaths directly from infection as well as deaths from the circumstances of the crisis.

Many Americans delayed seeking care during the pandemic, and others may have seen the quality of their care decrease as health systems were overburdened by Covid.

Still, this article was not an exploration into to what extent covid responses caused death.