>To me it is a bit of a mystery why France, who arguably did a lot to contain the virus, ended up with a more or less identical result as Sweden did. Are they,

>To me it is a bit of a mystery why France, who arguably did a lot to contain the virus, ended up with a more or less identical result as Sweden did. Are they, though? The long tail in Sweden seems to suggest a much larger per capita death count overall doesn't it? Wouldn't the initial peak in France and Sweden being the same suggest these are all deaths from the very start of the pandemic? People take a while to die. The work France did to contain the virus seems to explain the fairly rapid tail-off to zero, vs the slow tail-off in Sweden. I'd imagine -- with no evidence to back it up, mind you -- that there are likely also a lot of Swedes who took their own protective measures despite their government?