Sweden paid a huge price for not shutting down, they hold the highest death rate per capita at 12.5%. If that happened in the US that'd be close to four hundred thousand deaths. Their economy didn't fair much better than other countries. The interesting take on it is how you describe what's happening in Canada and that people don't like it...well the same happened in Sweden, people didn't like being forced to be exposed or their children being exposed. Sweden also has the highest rate of single individual homes in the world so having such a high death rate among a majority of people who live alone speaks volumes concerning their death rate. Experts say that with people being able to be reinfected Sweden is not out of the woods and some experts fear a vaccine may not even work for any lengthy period of time.

When it comes to the flu deaths it really isn't comparable. The CDC spends the following years going back over the death records and includes everyone who died of a respiratory illness or pneumonia during the flu season. Those people were not tested for the flu, the theory is that they may have had the flu prior to being hospitalized but were over it but they never got fully better. When they get hospitalized they aren't tested because they aren't showing symptoms anymore.