> All of this suggests that large and sustained
changes in living habits designed to avoid a single virus had not only “economic” opportunity
costs, but also cost a shockingly large number of young lives.
It is only slightly suspect that they cite Sweden vs the whole EU excess deaths per 100K, instead of Sweden vs the most comparable countries ( that had the opposite Covid policy), the other Nordics. Deaths in Southern Western Europe were much higher than in Northern Europe, so that will absolutely skew the numbers so that it looks like Sweden's policy was justified. Compared to it's direct neighbours, the death rate is similar, and same goes for economic downturn.
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> All of this suggests that large and sustained changes in living habits designed to avoid a single virus had not only “economic” opportunity costs, but also cost a shockingly large number of young lives.
It is only slightly suspect that they cite Sweden vs the whole EU excess deaths per 100K, instead of Sweden vs the most comparable countries ( that had the opposite Covid policy), the other Nordics. Deaths in Southern Western Europe were much higher than in Northern Europe, so that will absolutely skew the numbers so that it looks like Sweden's policy was justified. Compared to it's direct neighbours, the death rate is similar, and same goes for economic downturn.