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@dsmatthews@mastodon.online Yup. Out of Sweden's ~10 million population, you'd expect ~100,000 to die every year. So no surprise that 9,433 deaths doesn't make much difference to the graphs. They probably don't have many excess deaths from lockdown, because of course, they hardly had one. And of course, some % of those claimed covid19 deaths will be false positives, and/or people who were going to die of something this year anyway.
@pete @dsmatthews
Sweden didn't do lock downs A) because their constitution doesn't give the government that power [what an amazing concept] and B) because health authorities had previously war-gamed it out and found it didn't ultimately help.
But *now* they've gone and changed the law anyway. Let no crisis go to waste.
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-swedens-new-covid-lockdown-law-takes-effect/a-56185101