Who really did the best during Covid?

Since there was no uniform way to track "covid deaths" experts suggest that "excess deaths" (deaths above normal average) was probably the best tracker to get an accurate picture.

So the European country with the lowest amount of "excess deaths"? Well it was the ever attacked Sweden. You remember. Those stubborn Scandinavians who refused to follow the better judgement of the rest of society.

Using data reported by the countries themselves, the study compares excess death rates during the pandemic. This allowed the researchers to negate the various and somewhat contradictory ways in which different countries counted COVID-19 deaths. Sweden, for instance, adopted the US’ correlative approach by chalking up any death with a correlating COVID diagnosis as a COVID death (which the US still uses for both deaths and hospitalizations). Norway, on the other hand, required a doctor to certify COVID as the actual cause of the death for counting, which makes the two incompatible for comparison.

Many people inaccurately suggested Sweden was doing much worse than the other Scandinavian countries, when in fact they simply had a more lenient means of tracking a covid death. The Swedish epidemiologists suggested that they might see a higher influx of Covid cases and even deaths up front, but that over time it would all even out. That turned out to be more than true.

The United States, the excess deaths was at around 13%. While technically it was about average as a median average, this was considerably worse than most of Europe and the rest of the world as a mean average. More to the point, we had about three times as many excess deaths as did Sweden, which was the country our Covid panic spreaders suggested was doing it all wrong.

I think 99% of the evidence right now suggests that the US and most of Europe got this wrong. Of course, that won't stop the politics of the situation from refusing to admit this and because of that refusal to admit it... we may likely cause more irreversible harm by falling back into the pitfalls of lock downs, shut downs, and clinically unhealthy mask mandates if this new election year variant becomes a "thing" again.