Cumulative excess death in 2021 among European countries (sans Russia)

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  1. Soo… the areas with lowest vaccination levels, and most overstretched healthcare (and not the best to begin with) meaning also deaths from other issues are the at the top of this grim statistic? Makes sense. Per logic. And data. Buuuuuut, “Eastern Europe+” aside, what I find weird per covid and other data is Portugal and Belgium. They don’t seem to fit what is available online. Portugal faring worse than most of Western Europe and Belgium doing better. So any data links on those Reddit friends? As I mean I do my best to follow the data, but sometimes a map makes me wonder why, and PT + BE are the ones that made me wonder with this one.

  2. So, the purple and blue countries are all the countries of Eastern Europe (except Czechia, Estonia and Slovenia)

    Once again East/West divide

  3. So what’s the point of restricting it to 2021 only?

    The pandemic had different patterns over time for the different countries, starting earlier in some, later in others. Makes it very useless to pick one restricted timeframe for comparisons.

    I am not sure what this is supposed to say? Does not even coincide with a “deaths after widespread vaccination” either.

  4. Jeez, Sweden is shining so bright on this map my eyes hurt, we get it you done good, stop shoving it in our faces. /s.

    Seriously, anyone knows how it performed comparatively over the whole pandemic period?

  5. So Sweden performed the best if we just analyse the period where they had restrictions comparable to the other nordics.
    Very interesting.

    Also very interesting that Portugal didn’t perform worse as this is the period where they had their horrible third wave.

  6. Geez, a cherry picked timeframe (edit: Sweden had significant excess death in the first waves in early 2020 which are conveniently left out here),a cheery picked color distribution and a source called “prof_freedom”.

    Surely we are not trying to create a narrative here?

  7. So you’re telling me that the only country in Europe that had 0 lockdowns, and no mask mandates until quite recently, was actually the best in managing the pandemic?

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