the UK and Italy and France & the US are right behind.
Despite the tyrannical lockdown in the US, Sweden has a lower deaths per million than 8 of our states and the District of Columbia.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Deaths
/1M pop USA State
1,723 New Jersey
1,659 New York
1,217 Connecticut
1,189 Massachusetts
906 Rhode Island
795 District Of Columbia
710 Louisiana
623 Michigan
571 Illinois
539 Sweden
537 Maryland
532 Pennsylvania
526 Delaware
402 USA Total
and the graphs of their new infections has dropped dramatically at the end of June, and their graph of new deaths has dropped to barely above zero.
Their herd immunity is stronger than ours and the US will be closing the gap regarding the deaths/million as time goes on. They are ranked #7 worldwide in that category. France is #8, the US is at #9.
AND they didn't lock their country down AND didn't have the resultant spikes in suicides, alcoholism, and drug overdose deaths. Who knows how many people needlessly died in the US because they couldn't get in for their regular checkups and cancer screenings and so on. There are reports of people who had mild heart attacks who didn't go in because of the lockdowns thinking it wasn't serious enough. Others delayed until it was too late.
The financial costs are staggering and the tab still hasn't arrived for much of it. Businesses are going bankrupt, people will be losing their homes, and others will be evicted from apartments. The massive layoffs were unprecedented in the history of our country and the full ramifications of the financial disruptions have yet to play out. The trillions spent by the federal government may well turn into a dangerous and devastating inflation down the pike.
Edited by JeffB at 14:54:59 on 07/07/20