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Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by DanBC on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:07AM (#22933812)
Sweden has considerably more total deaths and deaths per capita than their neighbours Norway and Denmark.

Sweden is currently seeing an increase in both confirmed cases and deaths.

The only reason things aren't worse in Sweden is that they've implemented a mild form of lockdown. There's a lot of debate in Sweden about their approach, and plenty of people think they need to be on tighter lockdowns.

Re:Facebook says it has removed promotion of anti-quarantine... by jacobush on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:07AM (#22934161)
The tally is not properly done yet.

There is still great difference in how deaths are counted between countries. For instance, Italy mostly counted dead at hospitals. In Sweden, if someone dies, it's up to the doctor in charge to call for a post mortem test or not. There has been quite a lot testing in homes for the elderly.

What all of this means, is that it's very difficult to compare between countries. I think it will be much clearer in retrospect, but maybe not even then.

And this mild lockdown is the point - no tracking of citizens with apps, no quarantine orders, no Police and Military (Finland!!) or closed roads. People are changing their behaviour without all of that. The politicians in charge are worried that a hard lockdown will create fatigue - and they want us to be able to keep up mitigations for a long time, because the virus may be with us for a long time.