These are presumably regulations designed to keep the system moving in the face of a large number of deaths. What we don't know just from reading them is to what extend these new freedoms were used.
Agreed; one can deduce they were well-intentioned given an approaching potential crisis. Or not, depending on your (evolving) opinion.
As for the article...the language at the start doesn't suggest it's going to be a terribly impartial analysis and seems to be suggesting that somehow Covid death figures are being inflated deliberately so that somebody can make money from a vaccine.
I did say it was more opinionated for a factual article for my liking. I haven't seen the facts laid out better elsewhere though, and facts are facts, even if those communicating the facts have an agenda.
But that aside, they claim that we have had several years with higher excess deaths than seen when this was written. By looking at whole years maybe that works if you compare against bad flu years - but comparing monthly figures for different years something extreme clearly is happening to excess deaths.
Another claim is that the excess deaths we are seeing must be mostly due to the NHS refusing to treat other conditions because very few of them are actually due to Covid-19 but were nevertheless reported as such. I suppose that could be the case - that hospitals are full of people being cured of Covid-19 (or just sitting empty waiting for them) while peopel who would have been cured in hospital sat at home. I don't think so but I can't wave any figures around to dispute it.
I did also have some issue with the 'all cause mortality as a % of population' chart at the time; I can't remember what it was though.
The comments are quite interesting, especially when someone tries to set in with some reasoned responses and is jumped on quite rapidly.
The comments are often 'quite interesting' on off-guardian pieces. That's what happens when you don't moderate
*However*, all that being said, I was angling for analysis of the information about death certification, and whether there are errors in that. Ignore the opinionated bit at the start and the out-of-date bit at the end