Can you explain the COVID deaths between Norway and Sweden?
Yes.
Norway is not a transit center to get to anywhere else, but instead is fairly isolated.
Sweden in contrast, is where you do in order to get to Norway, Finland, etc.
But clearly "flattening the curve" is wrong with covid.
There are 2 basic strategies.
If it is very lethal, like Ebola, then you do full quarantine.
If it is not very lethal, like flu, then you actually want to speed up infection among those least vulnerable, so that you achieve herd immunity as quickly as possible.
Look up how Gen. Washington did this in 1777 with smallpox, using deliberate infection, called variolation.
That way, instead of covid being 3 years and 1.3 million deaths, it could have been ended in 1 month, with fewer than 50k deaths.
Think of masking and social distancing as preserving easy hosts for covid, so that it can't die out.
It need a new host ever 12 days.
So if you give 72% of the population recovery immunity, the epidemic instantly ends.