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Re:No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years by modo_mario on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:20AM (#25122034)
>And not only Sweden didn't do particularly bad, but it's done better than many major European countries like France, Italy, Spain or the UK.

It also still had people social distancing, wearing masks and disinfecting, a very low population density, a robust healthcare system which at no point in time got overwhelmed unlike let's say northern Italy.

Covid just never really blew up there but at the same time one can't exactly argue that the lack of certain policies contributed to that.

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Re:No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years by marviio on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:56AM (#25136213)
> a very low population density

This fact is brought up a lot. Isn't nation-wide population density a bad measurement? If a country, like Sweden, has huge areas where nobody lives, it says nothing about the density relevant for a virus spreading. While Stockholm's underground transport is nothing like Tokyo's, it's not different to other medium cities in the world.

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Re:No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years by alva on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:01AM (#25122746)
> wearing masks

not true at least in Stockholm

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