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If I read Figure 1 correctly, overall mortality has actually declined (minus Covid). Even in rural areas mortality has continued to decline while this statistic was tracked. What appears to be the case is its declined _faster_ in urban areas.

Figure 2 shows BOTH metro and non-metro increases in mortality for age groups 25-29 and 30-34.

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I think this somewhat makes intuitive sense. I think most people caught Covid. Covid was most risky for people who had other illnesses. In the universe without Covid, many of those people would have died anyway.

The people who survived Covid were on average healthier than the people it killed... so the life expectancy should go up post-peak-Covid.

Actually looking at other figures, its flat-to-worsening in rural areas since late 90s.

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