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LurkerJ on 11 October 2022
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Barozi said:
LurkerJ said:

Death rates

Sweden had one of Europe’s lowest Covid-19 death rates despite shunning most lockdown restrictions, data released in May by the World Health Organization (WHO) suggested. It covered global excess deaths associated with Covid-19 from January 2020 to December 2021.

Stockholm chose not to implement a full national lockdown during the pandemic, instead relying on “voluntary changes to behaviour”, said The Telegraph. The decision meant the nation was “deemed almost to be a rogue state” as other countries introduced wide-ranging restrictions to stem the spread of the virus. 

But according to the WHO figures, Sweden had an excess death rate of 56 per 100,000 – well below the global average of 96. By comparison, between 2020 and 2021, the UK’s excess death rate was 109, Spain’s was 111, and Germany’s was 116.

Light-touch approach

At the beginning of the pandemic, Sweden’s public health officials argued that it would “take years” to see which approaches to combating Covid-19 would be most effective, The Telegraph reported, arguing it would be better to avoid “untested measures”. 

They also took into consideration the “collateral damage” of lockdown, such as “the missed cancer diagnoses, the cancelled hospital appointments, and the lost education”, the paper said. And the decision “appears to have been vindicated”.

Sweden relied on individual citizens’ sense of “civic duty” to protect its population, said the Daily Mail, with authorities advising the population to practise social distancing while schools, bars and restaurants remained open to the public.

The decision to keep primary schools open “paid off”, said Emma Frans, a senior research specialist at the C8 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet, writing on The Conversation. 

“The incidence of severe acute Covid in children has been low” and a study showed that Swedish children “didn’t suffer the learning loss seen in many other countries”, she said

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/science-health/956673/did-sweden-covid-experiment-pay-off

Pretty bad source if they can't even get the revised numbers from the WHO study even when they have been available for months.

Sweden and Germany have been recalculated. Sweden now sits at 66 and Germany at 73.

http://faculty.washington.edu/jonno/space-station.html
http://faculty.washington.edu/jonno/COVID-Methods-Paper-Revision.pdf

Care to share the number of excess deaths per x population? It would give a better comparison rather just quoting where each country sits.

I can't seem to open the links you provided. 

Looking at this, however, it doesn't seem like Sweden isn't doing worse than either Germany or France:

Sweden's number, however, is missing one month, but even accounting for that, the fact that all these countries sit close together despite how strict France measures were, is astonishing. 

With that said, I do believe lockdowns were an appropriate response but definitely not anymore unless the healthcare system can't sustain it, even then, I doubt people are willing to listen.