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The article doesn't offer much new, compared to other threads that have been posted. It comes down to weighing the increased number of deaths against the various detrimental impacts of shutting down an economy, schools, etc. In Sweden, 0.06% of the total population have died of Covid. In Norway, 0.005% have died. Is ten times more dead in Sweden worth it when the final number is so low anyway? Will Norway catch up? No one knows.

The article said 7% of nursing home residents died of Covid. I tried to look up how many die during normal times. After all, they're in nursing homes, usually a person's last stop on this earth. All I could find was a study of Icelandic nursing homes, conducted between 1996 and 2006. They found that 28.8% of residents die within 1 year of being admitted, and 53.1% die within 3 years. These rates were pretty constant over the 10-year study. I guess you could say that about 7% had died over a three-month period, equal to the percentage who died in Sweden over roughly the same time frame.