"Governments around the world have responded to COVID-19 with more or less harsh (but, of course, never complete) shutdowns of economic and social activity.
The costs of these shutdowns have been enormous, obvious and undeniable, while the alleged benefits have been hypothetical and speculative.
As experience with the virus accumulates, there is, I think, a growing consensus that the shutdowns have been worthless, or close to worthless.
Dr. Gilbert Berdine, an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center, assembles some revealing information in the form of this chart, which compares daily COVID deaths per million of population in Sweden, New York, Illinois and Texas.
First, a note of caution.
I don’t know, and I am not sure whether anyone knows, whether different countries (or even states) count “COVID deaths” in the same way.
If American states follow CDC guidance, a “COVID death” does not mean that COVID was the cause of death.
It means that a person 1) died, and 2) had COVID.
Thus, gunshot victims have been counted as COVID deaths.
Do European countries follow this extremely misleading practice, and do states follow it uniformly?
I don’t know.
With that caveat, here is the chart.
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