And more on the subject from the most serious medical magazine in Sweden, reported in january - but still not wide spread in the national news. I guess that´s saved for when this is over:
Överdödligheten 2020 tyder på lägre dödstal i covid-19 - Dagens Medicin
A passage in the article describes the swedish bureactraic mentality that has us documentating probably more cases than just about any country in the world:
"In the Public Health Agency's statistics, which are updated Tuesday – Friday, all those who have had a covid diagnosis and died up to 30 days after the diagnosis. In this register, therefore, deaths of persons with established covid-19, but who have been run over by a bus, may be registered."
And from the first article, to people still comparing the Nordic countries:
"Another interesting pattern can be seen in the Nordic countries, he points out. During the most recent major disease outbreaks - the Asian (1957), the Hong Kong flu (1968) and the severe flu in 1976 - Sweden, together with Denmark, has mostly been hit harder than Norway, Iceland and Finland."
So it will be interesting to see how Denmark this time could stick out so much in a positive mather. Something that won´t be proparly analyzed for a few years I guess. For example, movement patterns early seemed to indicate that swedish and danish people behaved just about the same. And later on sweden has sometimes had harder restrictions, even if the international press hasn´t really covered that. Don´t now if Denmark has as many people now moving past 80 as Sweden does? We haven´t since been close to the birth numbers of the WW2 even if we´re today 4 million more people (6,3 then, 10,3 now...). So in the next 10 years it has been predicted that our death tolls per year will rise dramatically even without Corona. Probably spike in 5-10 years. Too add, outside elder people we can see that people from lower economical stands have been hit harder. A great deal of deaths have been among the foreig-born people who work in elder care, as janitors, assistant nurses and so who haven´t been able to work from home. And where leaving in smaller homes with more people is more common than the swedish middle class. So economical situation is probably a driving facture here as well. Especially since most people got corona at work or home:
Tegnell: De flesta smittas hemma eller på jobbet
In the end, we lost around 6000 more lives in 2020 than any other year during the 2010´s. If the elder care hadn´t been dismantled by just about all different goverments the last 30 years we probably would had cut that dramatically. But Sweden has done better than almost every other western country. The last time we had this high death numbers (but actually 0,2% more of the population...) was after the swedish economic crisis in the early 90´s. Something to dwell upon for people who think economics still is just numbers we can shut down...