Those are the numbers https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat... . The whole Europe and US have the highest deaths per capita in the world. Comparing to the peers - Western Europe - Sweden is midway in the list (and just above US) pretty much evidencing the point that whatever actions have been taken in all those countries it just doesn't seem to matter much.
> Sweden is midway in the list (and just above US) pretty much evidencing the point
Sweden is surely not "midway in the list" unless in an imaginary world where one thinks that all European countries fit on the accidental 13-item (!) part of the whole list of the Statista site.
Try it again but with the list of all European countries and considering the actual values and let me know if that "point" still exists. Especially when adding the countries which were able to do more testing than Sweden and introduced at least a bit stronger measures. E.g. Austria is comparable to Sweden in size, was potentially significantly more exposed in the begin, bordering Italy, and having three times less deaths per capita at the moment.
Moreover, people also mention Sweden as an example of "different" but in Sweden the Universities are also closed and everybody who can works from home too. The difference in "appearance" exists, but also among how much testing is being done and what is reported.
Many people are commenting from an American perspective, where "universities closed and everybody who can works from home" is the post-lockdown state we're trying to get to. American schools and universities end their academic year between mid May and early June, so we probably won't be sending people back to school until the fall term starts.
>Sweden is surely not "midway in the list" unless in an imaginary world where one thinks that all European countries fit on the accidental 13-item (!) part of the whole list of the Statista site.
Sweden peers are the old EU-15 plus Switzerland and Norway (i.e. Europe excluding the former Eastern Bloc countries). That makes the Sweden's 8th position in the list exactly the middle.
>Try it again but with the list of all European countries
you sure wouldn't think that Poland, Albania, Russia or Ukraine are the peer countries to compare Sweden with?
Sweden is currently 11th in deaths per capita, as everybody can see.
The only ones worse in the world currently are: San Marino, Belgium, Andorra, Spain, Italy, France, UK, Netherlands, Sint Maarten and Switzerland. From these, San Marino has 30K citizens, Andorra 70K, Sint Marteen 40K, so these three are practically irrelevant and misleading to compare.
So the only "real" (in size) countries in the whole world currently reported worse than Sweden are:
Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, UK, Netherlands and Switzerland.
How is that some "middle"? Note that specifically UK, Netherlands and Switzerland had longer bet on "herd immunity building, avoid other measures" than the rest of Europe. And I guess Belgium was just as incompetent as years before, having for years no government.
If anything, it is a good evidence of lockdowns working.
