Go to https://ourworldindata.org/ and check Sweden vs Norway, Finland through the vaccine rollout.
https://tinyurl.com/sweden-vs-nordic-covid
https://tinyurl.com/sweden-vs-nordic-cumulative
10x the death rate is a huge difference. You’d be seeing mass death, far more than anywhere else. It would be extremely visible.
Every ounce of data generated for covid was highly politically motivated and extremely biased. It should all be taken with a huge grain of salt.
When I talk with GBD proponents it always boils down to this: they won't believe the data and make up a variety of reasons why not to trust it, then they turn around and trust far worse analyses like the article comparing Sweden and non-Nordic countries with much worse obesity and far different systems (like the article comparing Sweden vs other EU).
It takes immense privilege and a very sheltered life to think covid was the only thing worthy of focus. There is a balance to be had when treating a disease.
People needed to take off their blinders and see what damage their mitigations causes.
Andy point still stands. 10x the “death rate” is massive and would be very visible. It wasn’t. It was only visible if you looked at it with a microscope.
What society did to attempt to mitigate covid was a disaster no matter how well it worked. And the kicker is it didn’t work at all… which is probably why every pandemic plan said explicitly not to do masks and lockdowns and school closures.
Speaking of myopic, please do talk to the families of the ~1200 additional deaths per million people in Sweden and tell them their tragedy was "only visible if you looked at it with a microscope."