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Without politicians and the media driving insane levels of fear, COVID would have come and gone, explained simply as a 'serious flu season', like the kinds we h
by ArkanExplorer 5y ago
Without politicians and the media driving insane levels of fear, COVID would have come and gone, explained simply as a 'serious flu season', like the kinds we have faced about every decade:
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
- nikolay 5y agoReally, since when a bad flu season had over 600K deaths?!
- thebruce87m 5y agoYou are looking at deaths as a measure of how bad it was, when Sweden and other countries put in to place measures to reduce infections and therefore deaths. Can you spot the problem with this? It’s not perfect, but you can compare the severity of each countries measures here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index?tab=chart&country=~SWE https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-stringency-index?ta...
- LatteLazy 5y agoDeath rates were vastly higher than usual, even with lockdowns, testing, masks, shielding, social distancing and eventually vaccines. Plus those pretty much eliminated flu this winter. So the deaths here are artificially low numbers. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-death-count https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
- Darvokis 5y agoI'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face when we have stuff like https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7 or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21358-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21358-2 showing that the measures taken reduced the transmission rate of Covid to much lower levels than they otherwise would have been.