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I 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 abou

by tpmx 6y ago

I 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 ago
Yes 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 ago
  I agree. The way Norway, Denmark and Finland has handled this has been superior.
  - seppin 6y ago
    And yet i'm anonymously downvoted, and pointing that out will surely get downvoted as well. Real healthy community discussion going on.
    - tpmx 6y ago
      A buch of my compatriots are really prickly about the current sitation, because of politics. I'm sorry for their behavior.
      - seppin 6y ago
        Can you explain any further? i'm interested to know the nuance.