The death and disease numbers don’t really matter until the society is operating normally.
You can’t compare the deaths in a nation which remains in lockdown to those of a nation which is open. You have to get through the curve, and if you are not allowing the free flow of people and activity, then you have not yet traversed the curve, and the worst death may well be ahead of you.
I say this specifically because people are saying Sweden’s numbers are high. This is true. But they are also at the end of a curve most Western nations most likely remain on the front end or middle of.
And again, the Swiss model is best. If you simply give HCQ to people who have been exposed, who are high risk, or who are in the early stages of the illness, nearly all the bad stuff disappears. Almost no one dies and the pandemic is done in a month.
Angry texts will be written for some years once the scope of unnecessary death is truly and honestly assessed from the back end of this whole disaster. It is not too early to be angry now.