...while where I live there never was any mask mandate, nor is there a vaccination mandate. Still most people in vulnerable groups have been vaccinated and every now and then you see someone with a mask although they are the exception rather than the rule. We also currently have the lowest SARS2 infection and mortality rate in Europe with no upward trend - it is actually still going down [1].

Meanwhile in Germany questions have been asked in the Thüringer Landtag (parliament of the state Thüringen) [2] about an oddity in the relationship between excess mortality and vaccination status of states (Bundesländer) - the higher the vaccination rate, the higher the excess mortality [3,4 (both in German)]. This should of course be the other way around, it is after all against severe disease and death that the vaccines are meant to protect.

[1] https://c19.se/en

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKVOqYUAHTo

[3] https://www.utebergner.de/der-wert-eines-menschen-haengt-nic... (in German)

[4] https://www.utebergner.de/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/%C3... (in German)