And while we watch the good little Democrat machines of Philadelphia and Atlanta slowly, slowly creep Biden’s numbers closer to Trump’s here are some other numbers to discuss.

Some months ago when the fighting over the Swedish approach to Chinese Lung Rot disease was first cranking up I decided to start a spreadsheet tracking the death tolls of that country, as reported by Worldometer for covid-19 and Statista for total deaths, population and so forth.

First up is the latest decade of Annual deaths and the population for Sweden, plus the resulting daily death toll and Annual death rate.

As you can see the annual deaths are fairly stable around 90,000 per year from all causes. As the population has increased the death rate has slowly declined from about 0.95% to 0.90%.

Then we come to 2020. According to Statista the total deaths from all causes as of October 30 was 75,644, or 249 per day. The years 2015 and 2016 had the same daily death rate of 249, and the ten-year average was 248.

Subtracting out all the covid-19 deaths as of October 30 (5,972) – and assuming for the moment that these were people who would not have died but for the disease – yields an expected year-end death toll much lower than anything in the last decade: 83,881.

But of course it’s a false assumption that the Swedes who died of Covid-19 would not have died of something else, likely something similar that attacks the lungs like influenza or pneumonia as is the case every year.

So I’ve added those back in and then added on the current 7-day moving average deaths from Covid-19, currently four per day, for the rest of the year of 62 days from October 30.

The result is a predicted total death number – from all causes – of 90,101. And with Sweden’s estimated population for 2020 that’s a death rate of 0.87%.

Which are numbers completely in line with the previous decade and a death rate that is actually below the decade’s average. That is the result of course of extra care and attention paid to infectious diseases this year by the Swedish population, even if they did not go for the extremist lockdown positions of other nations. Businesses stayed open, as did restaurants and cafes, and kids continued to go to school. Mild “social distancing” occurred at the discretion of the population, who followed medical advice but were not under orders or threats from the Police. There was no panic or hysteria among public figures, the public, or their MSM. All very Swedish!

There is no covid death spike on the horizon that would change these basic numbers very much at all by December 31.

The key takeaway here is that if you had never seen or read anything but these numbers you would have no idea that there had ever been a disease epidemic called Covid-19 in Sweden in 2020.