Kinda a bad comparison since Sweden is a lot smaller than America, & have better healthcare as a whole.
Sweden didnt enforce lockdowns and encourage people to work from home and stay inside especially if they were feeling sick. Because of that most of their covid death happened early in the pandemic. It mainly killed their elderly then eventually tapered off. They didnt make it through it unscathed.
Again, a lot of this was accomplished in Sweden, because their country isnt filled with & largely run by dick heads. I'm sure a bunch of their population voluntarily did a lot of the things our country was forced to mandate because people refused to listen. I mean the vaccination rate for Swedish kids went up in 2020, ours went down.
Here are some links and quotes you guys wont read
•Sweden Nov 2021 68% population fully vaxxed
•U.S. Dec 2021 61% population fully vaxxed, while 87% of those 65+ fully vaxxed
Deborah Birx already admitted yesterday that it was only the 65+ crowd that was at risk for severe COVID that most needed the shots to begin with. They were damn near 90% fully vaxxed.
We can debate all day as to what extent each country [voluntarily] obeyed restrictions but
1) the most at risk population in US had high vaxx rates,
2) the results show lockdowns at best didn't reduce excess mortality,
3) at worst increased excess mortality and/or also came with serious drawbacks like deaths of despair and child learning/economic losses.