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Sweden has ~14k official COVID deaths. Neighbouring Norway, at half the population and a moderate lockdown/PPE policy, has ~800 COVID deaths. The culture, clima
by varjag 5y ago
Sweden has ~14k official COVID deaths. Neighbouring Norway, at half the population and a moderate lockdown/PPE policy, has ~800 COVID deaths. The culture, climate, population density and demographics are very close.
All these extra Swedes died for sheer ineptitude of their government. There's hardly any difference in economic impact either.
- ptr 5y agoThe socioeconomic group that had the most deaths were people of foreign background aged 65 or more. Maybe Sweden just has a proportionally larger group of those?
- lazyjones 5y agoCovid deaths aren't the same as "excess deaths". It's just one of many causes of deaths over a year. Excess deaths is the difference between expected (typically an average of the past 5 years) and actual number of deaths in a year. IOW, due to the circumstances, excess deaths can be 0 despite Covid deaths being > 0.
- Dwelve 5y agoJust so we are clear. You're saying that if Covid didn't kill anybody, Sweden would have seen [1] 97k - 14k == 83k deaths in the year of 2020? [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...