Originally Posted by
Boraxo
Agree, but the correlation chart is still very informative. What i find interesting is that Sweden and the USA ended up in roughly the same place but Sweden did not shut down its economy and quarantine the entire population. That suggests the extreme business closures were unnecessary. Conversely, Argentina, Italy and Spain implemented very strict quarantines (worse than USA) and still ended up with death rates comparable to USA (and much worse economic destruction).
The USA didn't close down its economy and quarantine its entire population either. Briefly, maybe yes one could argue that happened, but even that is a stretch and it honestly lasted probably a total of 21 days of "strict lockdown". Recall that after less than 30 days, restrictions were agressively rolled back in many states.
Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, etc. are not exactly fare comparisons -- some of those countries have large "underground" economies that are not exactly regulated and are thus difficult to actually shut down.