Dan's Plan. Bribery, Fear and Rules, page-13

"the death rate (people that have contracted it vs dying) is at 1.40% (which is pretty good compared to other countries)"

In deriving that 1.4% death rate, how can it be known how many people have contracted it?

And as for 1.4% "being pretty good compared to other countries", the world's bad-boy poster child for not shutting down, namely Sweden, has recorded a total of 5,750 deaths [*], which based on a population of some 10.2m, works out to a death rate of 0.057% (Note, not 0.57%, but fifty seven one-thousandths of one percent).

1.4% is twenty five times higher than 0.057%

How can anyone possibly say that's "pretty good"?


[*] And here's what the death curve for Sweden looks like: