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"Sweden has one of the highest death rates per capita in Europe, and the absolute worse in nordic countries." That is an incredibly misleading way of saying "S
by timr 6y ago
"Sweden has one of the highest death rates per capita in Europe, and the absolute worse in nordic countries."
That is an incredibly misleading way of saying "Sweden is far better than Belgium, the UK and Spain in terms of death rate per 100k, and significantly better than Italy":
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
In fact, Sweden is ~mid pack for first-world countries. You really have to cherry pick the data to make it look bad. Yes, Finland is doing relatively well, but it is also beat out by world-renowned public health stalwarts like Afghanistan and Sudan, so...perhaps other factors are at play.
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- rramach 6y agoI don't get this obsession with comparing Sweden, a remote, sparsely-populated country, to more dense, well-connected, large population centers. If you really want to compare Sweden, please restrict your comparisons to its closely similar, equally remote and sparsely populated neighbors, namely, Norway and Finland. The 10X difference between them will be immediately obvious.
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- timr 6y agoFinland and Norway have half the population of Sweden. Sweden has about the same population as Belgium, Portugal and Greece...or Georgia (and Ohio, and Michigan, and...) in the US, none of which are places that people are shy about extrapolating from, when it suits their narrative. You may not like the conclusions that can be drawn from Sweden, but you can't dismiss it based on population. Try again.