suggesting that the lax measures in sweden were responsible for higher death counts is not a mathematically correct argument; the death toll was not the consequence of higher spread in the general population, which saw very low death counts, but rather due to a failure to prevent spread in geriatric facilities, which saw very high death counts.

if they had done a better job in keeping it out of the geriatric wards, they would have had much lower death counts.

but, the same thing is true in canada, which implemented much stricter measures and essentially got the same results, up to reasonable amounts of error.