A valuable comment to one of my other blog posts triggered this text: Mario - May 16, 2020 at 4:00 AM As of your writing the death toll was similar in both countries, but it developed drastically different after that. As of today Sweden hast 3.646 confirmed deaths and Austria 628. Would you mind updating your post accordingly? Do you still think their way was better/smarter in any way? @Mario: you're having a good point. In the end, we'll have to look at the overall death statistics at the end of the pandemic to know which response was better with regard to the number of lives lost. In addition to that, we'll have to account for the number of healthy life years lost and many other factors. As of today, the average age of the Swedish COVID-19 victims is above the average life expectancy in Sweden. Aside of the COVID-19 body count, there are certainly many things that I prefer about the Swedish approach. Politicians have a publicly known set of experts and act acc...