This is about the time in this document where you’re probably wondering “gee, Sweden had a
lot of deaths. This document keeps using Sweden as an example, but the media has criticized
them”. Well, let’s take a closer look at things.
The chart above shows the trailing average of mortality for Great Britain, Spain, Netherlands
and Sweden. When we look at all of them for the season prior to the current season —in other
words, the right-most part of each chart, we can see that all four of these countries had a very
“soft” prior season — in other words, fewer deaths than expected occurred. What is also
common amongst these countries is that when SARS-CoV-2 arrived in situ, there was a marked
spike in deaths. This is essentially another view of the concept of “dry tinder’ — because of the
prior “softer” season, those countries had “built up” a group of citizens — old, frail citizens —
who were spared from death by influenza, and instead died from COVID-19, causing a large
initial spike in mortality,
Next, we need to dissect the notion that Sweden had more deaths than other Nordic countries.
The following chart illustrates this. Neither Finland nor Norway had a large “trough” with
respect to deaths in the prior season, and as can be seen, neither of them had a massive spike
of deaths in the following season. Hungary is included for interest; they had the opposite occur,
where they saw excess mortality the prior season, and in fact then moved into a period of a
trough even though SARS-CoV-2 was present in the country.
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This clearly shows that there is a confounding factor, one of many, upon death statistics due to
COVID-19. While not directly pertinent to the mask debacle we are discussing, it is nonetheless
interesting. There are a number of other factors that easily explain the difference in deaths
