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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by _-___________-_ on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:19PM (#23766039)
If you read the comment you replied to again, you'll note that they didn't claim there was no excess mortality in Sweden. I'll quote the relevant bit here for you:

> For Sweden the excess deaths almost exactly matches the number of Covid deaths, give or take 10%.

Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by jobigoud on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:17AM (#23767950)
And they are saying that a good match between excess mortality and reported Covid death is not, in itself, an argument to say that Sweden is doing a good job. It has more excess mortality than its neighbors even if these might be underreporting Covid death so this argument is not exactly relevant.
Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by close04 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:14AM (#23768234)
The implication is that Sweden is doing a great job with the reporting. I think the whole point of OP's comment was that the statistics are meaningless because many countries skew the reporting, while Sweden does not.

> The statistics are likely completely wrong because different countries use different definitions of "Covid deaths" and different reporting procedures.