Excess mortality and government response in Germany

As an update of my earlier COVID19 paper, I thought  about correlating excess COVID19 mortality

with the Oxford stringency index of government response.

just to answer the question: What had been appropriate?

Getting the data is no problem but verifying and selecting the best variables is a nightmare and involves so many a priori decisions that I am basically lost here. And it looks weird just by overlaying both plots.


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