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>Sweden is surely not "midway in the list" unless in an imaginary world where one thinks that all European countries fit on the accidental 13-item (!) part of t
by trhway 7y ago
>Sweden is surely not "midway in the list" unless in an imaginary world where one thinks that all European countries fit on the accidental 13-item (!) part of the whole list of the Statista site.
Sweden peers are the old EU-15 plus Switzerland and Norway (i.e. Europe excluding the former Eastern Bloc countries). That makes the Sweden's 8th position in the list exactly the middle.
>Try it again but with the list of all European countries
you sure wouldn't think that Poland, Albania, Russia or Ukraine are the peer countries to compare Sweden with?
- acqq 7y ago> makes the Sweden's 8th position in the list exactly the middle From all countries and entities in the world, around 200 here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Sweden is currently 11th in deaths per capita, as everybody can see. The only ones worse in the world currently are: San Marino, Belgium, Andorra, Spain, Italy, France, UK, Netherlands, Sint Maarten and Switzerland. From these, San Marino has 30K citizens, Andorra 70K, Sint Marteen 40K, so these three are practically irrelevant and misleading to compare. So the only "real" (in size) countries in the whole world currently reported worse than Sweden are: Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, UK, Netherlands and Switzerland. How is that some "middle"? Note that specifically UK, Netherlands and Switzerland had longer bet on "herd immunity building, avoid other measures" than the rest of Europe. And I guess Belgium was just as incompetent as years before, having for years no government. If anything, it is a good evidence of lockdowns working.