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There are not that many countries that are worse than Sweden in the pandemic numbers. And Sweden's neighbors have all done much better. Economically everyone in
by pedrocr 6y ago
There are not that many countries that are worse than Sweden in the pandemic numbers. And Sweden's neighbors have all done much better. Economically everyone in the EU is similar. There's still quite a bit to study but this fixation in painting Sweden as a success case is amazing. It shows up in these threads without fail.
- sesuximo 6y agoSeems like it’s about the same as other large countries? But a bit of a weird situation since no lockdown != citizens out and about having a party. People can choose to lock themselves down Belgium 96.36 Spain 75.2 United Kingdom 68.07 Italy 62.46 Sweden 57.85 France 53.04 Netherlands 41.27 Ireland 38.54 Romania 33.86 Luxembourg 23.95 Czechia 23.92 Portugal 23.07 Bulgaria 16.59 Copies from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-deat... excuse the bad formatting
- pedrocr 6y agoAs you listed it's in #5 worst in 27 in the EU. How it ends up being the darling "sucess" case from the numbers beats me.
- flufluflu 6y agoWhen the state will be bankrupy and won'y be able to pay for the therapy of the people it wanted to save, people here will say "Well, at least we had 10% less Covid deaths than Sweden".