Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle...
by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:24PM
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Really? 4500 hundred extra death a year is not insignifcant.
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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle...
by martindbp on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:59AM
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90000 people die in Sweden every year. Shutting down the economy for a 5% increase is not reasonable.
Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle...
by SomeoneFromCA on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:36AM
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No one shut down economy for exteneded period of time in Norway or Finland, they did just intermittently and now they have exactly same economic situation Sweden. Not worse, not better, but much less death. So 5000 people are dead for nothing. Even more importantly, explicit denying medical care to everyone after, say, 75 y.o. will save lots of money which can be redirected to fun stuff (lowering taxes etc.), and your death rate will barely go up; no one does that though, because that would be considered completely inhumane.