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Sweden has already had more cases and more deaths than Austria, both in absolute and per capita numbers, and has a larger vaccination rate than Austria.
by PeterisP 5y ago
Sweden has already had more cases and more deaths than Austria, both in absolute and per capita numbers, and has a larger vaccination rate than Austria.
- tinus_hn 5y agoFreedom is worthless. Better live your life in lockdown, than stand a 1% chance of dying. Or actually, better for someone else to live their life in lockdown, than to have me stand a 1% chance of dying.
- dang 5y agoPlease stop posting ideological flamebait to HN. We ban accounts that do that, and this thread is bad enough as it is. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- iab 5y agoThese threads invariably generate heat, and not light.
- dang 5y agoYes, but there are degrees of heat as well as light. It makes a difference which circle of hell a thread ends up in, so comments that push things further in are a particular problem.
- iab 5y agoI can’t recall too many threads where I have left inspired rather than despondent, but maybe that is atypical. In general though, are these topical news-focused submissions in the spirit of the guidelines? They don’t satisfy too much intellectual curiosity, and are well-covered by the news, so it seems like “no”
- Jensson 5y agoSweden has lower excess deaths than Austria, so Austria just looks better since they under reported deaths. Edit: Austria currently has more absolute excess deaths and lower population than Sweden according to Financial Times. Source: https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938 https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386...