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Turns out Sweden has completely abandoned their Laissez Faire attitude in the face of a >4x death rate and very little economic improvement compared to their ne
by mikeyouse 6y ago
Turns out Sweden has completely abandoned their Laissez Faire attitude in the face of a >4x death rate and very little economic improvement compared to their neighboring countries. They’re instituting large gathering bans, closing schools, instituting curfews on bars and clubs, they’re just doing it months later than was reasonable.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/swedens-pandemic-experiment-ends-spiking-coronavirus-cases http://www.foxnews.com/world/swedens-pandemic-experiment-end...
Or more directly, a chart that says more than most articles: https://si-wsj-net.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OG-FJ251_SWEDEN_4U_20201206073151.png https://si-wsj-net.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/si.wsj.net/public/...
- Camas 6y ago"Completely abandoned" here being used to mean still much more permissive than most western countries.
- marcell 6y agoAlternate perspective is that their excess mortality has been average since the middle of summer, and is not spiking as of right now. This site https://www.euromomo.eu/ https://www.euromomo.eu/ lets you compare all this data by country.