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> He's on record saying mask requirements will be needed if cases started going back up: So if cases started going back up, which is not the case for now, so t
by polote 6y ago
> He's on record saying mask requirements will be needed if cases started going back up:
So if cases started going back up, which is not the case for now, so this is not an argument
> The end result: Same economic damage as the other Nordic countries, but substantially higher deaths.
You compare the economic impact of one country which was hit by the virus (Sweden) and one which was not (Germany,Finland, ...). What is going to happen if the virus restart in Germany and Finland and not in Sweden ?
- ceejayoz 6y ago> You compare the economic impact of one country which was hit by the virus (Sweden) and one which was not (Germany,Finland, ...). If you're going to make the "Sweden did things right" case, "Sweden got it bad and Germany didn't" is an odd position to support the argument with.
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- dhimes 6y agoBack in mid-May, when the US was still behaving pretty well, the angry right-wing facebookers started talking about how great Sweden was. So I did a per-capita death calculation and Sweden's was 30% higher than the US's. Of course, a lot of the US has lost patience with the difficulty of safety, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's worse now. But that's not because of lockdown not being effective. In fact, it's the opposite. And let's not forget, in the US H1N1 infected 60M people and only killed 12K of them.