"But the Norwegian public health authority has published a report with a striking conclusion: the virus was never spreading as fast as had been feared [emphasis added] and was already on the way out when lockdown was ordered."
It remains that health authorities couldn’t tell politicians how fast that the new virus was spreading when politicians needed to make lockdown decisions, decisions made early enough for effective lockdown regardless how fast virus spreading.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Corrections, insights welcome.
The article doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a hindsight retrospective evaluation of whether the lockdown made a difference, so your comment doesn’t make any sense to me