It's interesting how on almost every metric that nations are measured by, the Scandanavian nations (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland) lead the pack, whether it's longevity (highest), income disparity (lowest), social mobility (highest), healthcare (highest), literacy rate (highest), happiness index (highest). They do things right and the people are in accord with their governments.
I'm not so sure about the "accord with their governments" part. People for the most part comply, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they agree or fully trust the government.
Why was the mortality of Covid low in the Nordic countries, more or less like a regular flu? Multiple factors I suppose:
* Sparsely populated
* Relatively healthy population
* Decent healthcare
* Respiratory diseases are common and the immune system gets well prepared for these things
* Genetics, which can be related to the above bullet point. Children have a cold more or less continuously until well into the teens, and child mortality was near 50% until the 1800's, so genes making people vulnerable to respiratory diseases get selected away.