Sweden COVID-19 numbers are much lower than the flu numbers in the years before. Now they are at 2000 deaths total, in the years before they were at 1800 weekly. That's almost everywhere, besides a few outliers which need to be studied. The global trend is that it is a very weak flu season, despite there's no vaccine, no proper treatment (ventilators turning up wrong at the end of the wave) and extremely high spread (R0 of 5). Turns out people's immune reaction can fight SARS-CoV-2 much better than the normal influenza strains, for which vaccination exist. Maybe because it's so close to the common cold our body is accustomed to.

Everybody likes to play the numbers and curves games, but don't make it political by deliberately faking it. Like the NY Times or FT curves lately.

Even euromomo.eu changed its curves recently so they do lookh more dramatic. Not backed by the absolute numbers. They suddenly invented 32.000 unaccounted new deaths out of the magicians hat, not telling us were these new numbers came from. Some countries forbid pathologies on COVID-19 cases and forbid classification post-mortem. But this only applies to elderlies dying at home alone. But this would only apply to countries like the US with no healthcare system. Like the New Jersey case of 70 seniors. Everybody else goes to the hospitals.