1. Sweden only has about 10 million people and a relatively large rural area - it's not highly urbanised aka France and the Uk and more like Tasmania.
20% of the Swedish population live in the greater Stockholm metropolis
2. Sweden does not provide much data and many questions hang over the quality of what its government has been reporting.
What data is Sweden now not providing to your satisfaction which it was providing at the outset the arrival of the virus? Please provide link(s) to the "question that hang over the quality of the data" being reported by the Swedish Health Authorities
3. COVID19 greatly reduced tourism throughout Sweden - approximating a virtual 'lockdown'
There is no lockdown at all people are able to move freely and shops and businesses remained opened.
4. Many Swedes have been practising COVID19 safe behaviours.
But that is an an entirely different thing to locking down the economy... businesses, schools, bars and restaurants never closed and the Swedes did not adopt the wearing of masks.
5. The chart below from 'Worldometer' tells the story your selective use of data censored out - since mid October infections are rocketing!
Errr.. no data censoring on my part.
None other than Worldometer was the very source I used in the compilation of my tables.
(You can check my tabulated figures against Worldometer data if you like.)
And if you want "since mid-October" to be your selected time frame, then sure I'll be more than happy to do that exercise for you (seeing as you clearly haven't done it yourself).
As you can see from the revised tables below, if we use a mid-October starting point, the conclusions look no different for Sweden relative to its EU counterparts:
In terms of per capita cases, the EU (at 1,154 cases per 100,000 citizens) is running at a rate a full 64% higher than Sweden (703 cases per 100k):
And in terms of the far more important measure of deaths per head of population, over your "since mid-October" time frame, the EU bloc is experiencing Covid deaths at a rate of 12.2 deaths per 100,000 citizens, which is almost FIVE TIME HIGHER than Sweden's 2.6 deaths per 100k:
Why, since mid-October, Sweden's per capita death rate is lower, even, than Germany's.
[Again, all data in the above tables sourced from none other than Worldometer.]
