Sweden has 1765 COVID dead per million so far in the pandemic.
Their Scandinavian kinsmen across the border in Norway that did lock down have 395 dead per million.
And New Jersey where I live with a population and land area close to Sweden’s had well over 3,000 with lockdowns ,maskification and stay at home rules for kids. I’ll take Sweden;s approach next time.
Sweden and Norway as of 19 March 2022.
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu
( 18,053 Swedish Covid deaths / 10,206,072 population of Sweden ) x 100 = 0.177 % Swedish mortality rate.
( 2,169 Norwegian Covid deaths / 5,492,904 population of Norway ) x 100 = 0.039 % Norwegian mortality rate.
Comparing the more "deadly" Swedish coronavirus result with the less "deadly" Norwegian result is correctly an arithmetic matter of 0.177 being greater than 0.039.
But comparing Sweden with the enlightened Covid response in the US presents a different comparison. It becomes not a matter of lockdown versus no lockdown, but something more elusive.
( 970,806 US Covid deaths / 334,289,437 population of US ) x 100 = 0.290 % American mortality rate.
As one may compare, Sweden's mortality rate is less than the US under Collins, Fauci and Walensky. So where has it been more "deadly" to be?
The survival rate for Covid in Norway over twenty-seven months has been 99.96 %, while in Sweden is has been 99.82 %, but in the "deadly" US, according to all the "official" data from "official" sources the survival rate for Covid in the general population has been 99.71 %.
A survival rate in the general population measured across a twenty-seven month span is, at worst here, 99.71 %.
Lock down versus not locking down. No determination can be made, unless one looks at the official China data from JHU. A nation with 1,448,751,056 people have "officially" 10,037 Covid deaths, for a mortality rate of 0.00069 %.
Obviously then, China is "the place" to be REALLY safe from Covid....if one accepts the "official" data and "official" recommendations and "official" analyses.