NO, SWEDEN DOES NOT PROVE COVID LOCKDOWNS WORK: Critics, including some in Sweden, contend the decision to remain mostly open during the Covid pandemic has unnecessarily cost thousands of Nordic lives.

But hold on there, buckaroos, because three guys at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) say Sweden has lots of other factors that are more explanatory of its  losses, not the least of which is the one it shares with New York.