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Quick summary: Monumental incompetency/groupthink at our small CDC-equivalency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) during the spring. Disaster was narrowly avoided by heroi
by tpmx 6y ago
Quick summary:
Monumental incompetency/groupthink at our small CDC-equivalency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) during the spring. Disaster was narrowly avoided by heroic work by healthcare workers/hospitals. A lot of people died though. Death per capita levels are similar to US levels, not to rest-of-Nordics levels (e.g. Norway/Denmark/Finland). This isn't acceptable.
Herd immunity was the obvious plan all along although it was publicly denied. Recent "leaked" emails have revealed the truth.
The same people responsible for the above are still in charge. It will be a long winter.
Source: Jag är svensk. (I am Swedish.)
- landemva 6y agoIt is useful to look at death rates by age group. Sweden initially made the same mistake as Cuomo in New York by putting known infected people in nursing homes that housed compromised older people. That caused it to spread into and kill a known vulnerable age group.
- _Microft 6y agoI just made up a word: would "folkhälsoomyndigheten" be a pun that Swedes would actually understand? My swedish is admittedly a bit rusty by now. Take care and all the best!
- seppin 6y ago> Death per capita levels are similar to US levels Not "similar", it was the highest per capita death rate in the world alongside the UK for 2 months.
- tpmx 6y agoI mean, sure, for a very long time Sweden had insanely high per death per capita stats. By now, though, the US has passed Sweden in deaths per capita. It's about the same, e.g. horrible, though. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
- seppin 6y agoYes my point was Sweden's original policy was so bad it lead the world in deaths per capita, while it's neighbors had a small fraction of their infections / deaths and no noticeable difference in economic performance due to their lockdowns (Sweden had -9% GDP in Q2 the rest of the nordic bloc -9.8% averaged). Their policy was and continues to be an abject failure.
- tpmx 6y agoI agree. The way Norway, Denmark and Finland has handled this has been superior.