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| Sweden, Again - Not as Simple as You Thought |
| 2020-09-05 |
| Many things are not as simple as reported. [AIER] Going into the corona pandemic of 2020, Sweden already had an abundance of vulnerable elderly who would not have survived a harsher flu season – and whose Danish, Norwegian and Finnish counterparts did not survive the previous years' flu seasons in those countries. Even if one disregards new research suggesting that lockdowns don't work (here, here and here), it is improbable that Sweden's light lockdown is one of the main possible reasons for Sweden's high COVID death rate. But we go on to list 15 other factors. The single-minded story that Sweden's high death rate, relative to the other Nordics, stems from its relatively liberal corona policy lacks nuance. There are many other differences between Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, including differences specific to the present. Compared to its neighbors, Sweden would have had a much worse death toll regardless of the policy measures it took in March 2020. Lots of charts at the link, with some interesting arguments. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 Look, you all think of Sweden as some sort of Libertarian heaven - just as your opponents thought of it as a Socialist heaven a decade ago. It's neither. The real story is that Tegnell, being an bureaucratic idiot i.e., somebody who doesn't understand the basis of his putative profession (that's the link that I've provided) made a wrong decision*. And, because of the bureaucratic structure of Swedish government, he wasn't overruled when the bodies started piling up. *More precisely, he accepted WHO's recommendations**. Lots of bureaucrats did: Italy, France, Belgium, **We know now that WHO's recommendations came fro m China. p.s. Don't quote me current Covid numbers from Sweden, because they're exactly the same as their Scandinavian neighbors (except for 6000 bodies at the onset). It has to do with the fact that Scandinavians have natural distancing habits (40% of households are single person, look at pics how close they stand to each other) that is not applicable in USA. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-05 15:09 |
| #2 So does the #1 link invalidate the original article? Limit its application? Or suggest it's even more complicated that the posted article? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-05 14:41 |
| #1 The main factor was the fact that the chief Swedish |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-09-05 12:21 |