In this previous Substack, I mentioned how it was that 2019 was a more extreme year for Sweden — in terms of the death rate — than 2020 was. In other words, using the 2015-2019 average as a baseline, the fall in death in 2019 was greater than the rise in death in 2020.
To clarify how that plays out, here is a noted graph displaying how 2019 was even more extreme than 2020 in Sweden:
The stark drop in 2019 completely balances out the rise of 2020. In fact, it more-than-completely offsets the extra death of 2020. And when 2021 is added into the picture, the “pandemic death rate” is driven down even more. The average of those 3 years is 883 yearly deaths per 100,000.
But the 5-year average of 2015-2019 was 892 yearly deaths per 100,000.
Even taking the average of the 4 years from 2019 to 2022 (884 per 100,000) reveals that the COVID pandemic had little impact on the crude death rate in Sweden. This is the opposite of what has been insinuated in the mainstream media, however.
The likely reason why the mortality burden in Sweden was so low is because the government did not issue risky and potentially-dangerous medical mandates, such as lockdowns, masks, and “vaccine mandates.”
By avoiding those risky and potentially-dangerous measures, Sweden’s experience with COVID was better than in most of the world. Officials in other nations chose to adopt risky measures which had the inherent potential to drive up death dramatically.