Sweden is a sensible choice to compare given the thread theme. I wondered if an equivalent or similar country would have been a better choice. E.g Denmark/ Norway who had a different lockdown strategy.
I wonder if anyone have a link to excess death data across multiple nations. It would be interesting to see excess deaths/ million of the population across Europe. I can find graphical data but not the direct numbers.
Financial times show some quite varied results of covid strategy.
I'm surprised by the Scotland comparison but the Swedes have insisted from the beginning that comparisons between countries can only be meaningful 1, in a year or so 2, when all the stats are being compiled fairly ... excess deaths is probably the fairest.