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"The Swedish government's approach has attracted controversy. The impact on the country's healthcare system and its reported death toll have been far greater th
by Sankozi 3y ago
"The Swedish government's approach has attracted controversy. The impact on the country's healthcare system and its reported death toll have been far greater than in other Nordic countries, in part due to its unique strategy."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
- throwaway22032 3y agoThis is about as obvious as saying that we have more car accidents now than before the invention of the car. The question is whether the cost-benefit analysis stacked up. The overall mortality rate was about 0.2-0.3%, which is... on par with the UK, US, and tons of places that played restriction bingo.
- Sankozi 3y agoThis was not obvious to slaw, who did not say anything about cost-benefit analysis.
- slaw 3y agoAre you mind reader?
- throwaway22032 3y agoI'd consider it implicit. Americans drive cars a lot and they're not all dead, despite having higher accident rates than e.g. Sweden. It would be fairly... arbitrary(?) to jump in and state that Americans should just restrict their car use purely to keep accidents down with no consideration of what they'd lose by doing so.