Sweden bans public events of more than eight people

Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people by chrisco255 on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:22PM (#25117139)

Italy, Spain, UK, Belgium, etc...are all able to be compared with Sweden, why wouldn't they be?

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Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people by pchristensen on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:49PM (#25117413)

Consider Sweden to be like Minnesota, Italy to be like Florida, UK to be like New York, and Belgium to be like ... well, I don't know Belgium well. These places have very different climate, population, connections to other countries/states, economies, density, etc.

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Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people by chrisco255 on Monday November 16, 2020 @06:39PM (#25118529)

We regularly compare states on all sorts of measures including test scores, income levels, murder rates, etc. despite all these differences. Right now, Sweden is ranked 20th in the world in deaths per million for Covid and dropping.

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Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people by fakedang on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:34PM (#25117251)

Population sizes, density, climate variations, cultural aspects, etc. Not to mention, Sweden is vast compared to any of those places - for 10 million people, it should not have had as many cases or deaths.

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Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people by triceratops on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:11PM (#25117701)

Are Minnesota and New Jersey comparable?

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