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> Compare the death rates of Sweden As a New Zealander, I like to chuck out our achievement of a negative death rate. Covid lockdowns resulted in less New Zeal
by lostlogin 8mo ago
> Compare the death rates of Sweden
As a New Zealander, I like to chuck out our achievement of a negative death rate. Covid lockdowns resulted in less New Zealanders dying than usual.
But, like elsewhere, economic and social harm were both high.
- pocksuppet 8mo agoYou had 6 weeks of staying at home, and then quarantines for international travellers after that. In return, you had no COVID-19 at all for several years. Seems a fair trade.
- ninalanyon 8mo ago> negative death rate. Norway had that too; without lockdown. Curfews would require a change in the constitution and the last time they happened was during WWII which makes them doubly unpopular.