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Re:Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian by Gravityloss on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:38PM (#24618491)
In Sweden the culture, political system and standard of living etc is quite similar to its neighbors. But the government took the herd immunity approach to corona and it so far has resulted in 10x deaths per capita compared to the neighbors, which took a prevention approach.

So it really has very direct meaning on what the government does. They really have a lot of responsibility.

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Re:Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian by bybjorn on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:33PM (#24619171)
«Herd immunity» was never part of Sweden’s approach though, just tune in to any AMA session with Tegnell. They have had much of the same response as other countries, although a more lax version with recommendations instead of strict rules and lockdowns.
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Re:Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian by nradov on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:13PM (#24618927)
Sweden had a high initial death rate, however they have been down to an average 1 per day for the past month. So whatever they're doing lately seems to be working quite well. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
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Re:Dreading a dark winter lockdown? Think like a Norwegian by Gravityloss on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:59PM (#24632909)
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?minPopu...

Worse for the first six months. Sweden's curve was comparable to Italy and USA in some sense.

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