Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by bildung on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:42AM
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For the same year, 2017, it's 24.1% for Sweden and 16.8% for Norway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Norway
And in both countries almost half of the immigrants come from Europe or similar latitudes.
This doesn't explain the factor 10 difference in outcome.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by ikeyany on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:36AM
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GP isn't denying they have more immigrants, they are saying it makes more sense to point to their reaction to the pandemic than to point at their number of immigrants. This explanation is both more simple and it doesn't have strange racist undertones.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by evbpcapfxy on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:58AM
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Pointing out an observation in relation biology and vitamin d production, even if totally incorrect, does not mean it's racist. If anything, if someone with darker skin living in Sweden would get their vitamin d levels checked and correct it because the comment above, it would help them.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by ikeyany on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:05AM
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> Sweden has much more of an immigrant / foreign-born parent population.
This was said in response to the statement that Sweden has 10x more deaths than Norway.
Re:Bangalore has 12M residents and only 385 Covid-19 cases
by ceilingcorner on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:38AM
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I was just replying to the idea that the demographics are the same.
As of 2017, Statistics Sweden reported that around 2,439,007 or 24.1% of the inhabitants of Sweden were from a foreign background: that is, each such person either had been born abroad or had been born in Sweden to two parents who themselves had both been born abroad.[22] Also taking into account people with only one parent born abroad, this number increases to almost a third in 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden#Migrati...
Immigrants constituted 13% of the population at the start of 2015, and an additional 2.6% were born in Norway by immigrant parents[12] (up from 8,3% and 1,5% in 2006[13]). The same year, 19% of births in Norway were to immigrant parents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Norway#Ethnici...