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The article keeps cherry picking particularly hard hit countries as a comparison to Sweden, instead of e.g. its closest neighbors Denmark (comparable hit to GDP
by microtherion 6y ago
The article keeps cherry picking particularly hard hit countries as a comparison to Sweden, instead of e.g. its closest neighbors Denmark (comparable hit to GDP, less than 20% of the deaths) or Finland (smaller hit to GDP, less than 15% of the deaths). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-14082020-AP-EN.pdf/7f30c3cf-b2c9-98ad-3451-17fed0230b57 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-1...
And as for Stockholm being "on the verge of herd immunity", the Swedish Bikini Immunologist Team predicted the same in April: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-stockholm-could-see-herd-immunity-in-weeks.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...