This made Sweden's outcome sound a lot better than it actually is. Here are numbers: Sweden still had an economic contraction of ~ -8.3% (Germany ~ -11.7%) whi

This made Sweden's outcome sound a lot better than it actually is. Here are numbers: Sweden still had an economic contraction of ~ -8.3% (Germany ~ -11.7%) while having 5.5 times (i.e. 550%!) the deaths per million inhabitants (Germany: ~ 110/1M, Sweden: ~ 575/1M). You can compare them to e.g. the UK or Spain though and justifiably claim that they had a far better economic outcome per casualty than them if you like. Or compare them to e.g. Denmark or Lithuania and see that Sweden got 10 times the casualty rate and a worse economic contraction. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-health-economy https://ourworldindata.org/covid-health-economy