Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by landemva on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:54PM
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It is useful to look at death rates by age group. Sweden initially made the same mistake as Cuomo in New York by putting known infected people in nursing homes that housed compromised older people. That caused it to spread into and kill a known vulnerable age group.
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by _Microft on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:57PM
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I just made up a word: would "folkhälsoomyndigheten" be a pun that Swedes would actually understand? My swedish is admittedly a bit rusty by now.
Take care and all the best!
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by tpmx on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:00PM
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Not really, but I see what you were going for. Thanks!
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by _Microft on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:12PM
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It never hurts to try. Thanks for the feedback!
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by tpmx on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:16PM
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No problem. Btw, it would be "Ohälsofolkmyndigheten", I guess, although it sounds really weird.
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by seppin on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:04PM
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> Death per capita levels are similar to US levels
Not "similar", it was the highest per capita death rate in the world alongside the UK for 2 months.
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by tpmx on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:12PM
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I mean, sure, for a very long time Sweden had insanely high per death per capita stats. By now, though, the US has passed Sweden in deaths per capita. It's about the same, e.g. horrible, though.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by seppin on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:18PM
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Yes my point was Sweden's original policy was so bad it lead the world in deaths per capita, while it's neighbors had a small fraction of their infections / deaths and no noticeable difference in economic performance due to their lockdowns (Sweden had -9% GDP in Q2 the rest of the nordic bloc -9.8% averaged).
Their policy was and continues to be an abject failure.
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by tpmx on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:56PM
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I agree. The way Norway, Denmark and Finland has handled this has been superior.
Re:Sweden bans public events of more than eight people
by seppin on Monday November 16, 2020 @07:26PM
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And yet i'm anonymously downvoted, and pointing that out will surely get downvoted as well.
Real healthy community discussion going on.
Monumental incompetency/groupthink at our small CDC-equivalency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) during the spring. Disaster was narrowly avoided by heroic work by healthcare workers/hospitals. A lot of people died though. Death per capita levels are similar to US levels, not to rest-of-Nordics levels (e.g. Norway/Denmark/Finland). This isn't acceptable.
Herd immunity was the obvious plan all along although it was publicly denied. Recent "leaked" emails have revealed the truth.
The same people responsible for the above are still in charge. It will be a long winter.
Source: Jag är svensk. (I am Swedish.)