!!!! This is excellent! A goldmine of data that I've been desperately trying to find.
I want to make 500 sock accounts to like your response! (Just kidding, of course)

The number of what is "significant" is an interesting discussion in itself.
If you ask me - was it worth restructuring society, sending the population into a spiral of depression, insecurity, debt and mental/physical health issues in order to "save" us from corona? Hell no!

However, some folks on the pro-narrative side put disproportionate weight on covid deaths, which I find insane - so say, if the country as a whole has to suffer "slightly" (they downplay the dangers of what's happening) in order to save those aforementioned 2000, then so be it. So for them, even if excess death was 1000 or 500, they will justify any corona measures.

It's an unwinnable argument - if covid deaths are high, they say that this proves that covid is serious (and we need to use harsher measures). If covid deaths are low, they say that this proves that the measures worked and we saved a lot of lives.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Tons of thanks, maybe I'll sticky the births/deaths or make a separate post, depending on how much information there is on the topic.