Sweden is just barely worse than other Scandinavian countries (definitely not 5-7x). Germany is 50-100% worse than Sweden.
So while you might use "total deaths" as an argument that the Swedish "no lockdowns" strategy was worse at the beginning of the pandemic, it's clearly superior now.
The linked graph shows Sweden at 7x norway's rate, 5x finland's rate and 3x denmarks rate. Am I reading that right? How are you concluding that Sweden's strategy was clearly superior?
To paraphrase you: it was great to have all those vulnerable people in care homes die immediately from Covid in 2020 since it avoids a few of them dying in 2021.
You realise how nonsensical (and callous) that sounds?
Take a look at this graph - cumulative deaths since, I don't know, start of 2021 or something.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Sweden is just barely worse than other Scandinavian countries (definitely not 5-7x). Germany is 50-100% worse than Sweden.
So while you might use "total deaths" as an argument that the Swedish "no lockdowns" strategy was worse at the beginning of the pandemic, it's clearly superior now.