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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by dTal on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:51PM (#28269495)
I made you this chart of the UK pandemic. It's incomplete by necessity, but gives the flavor. Do the dates and lockdown measures look unrelated?

https://imgur.com/a/026CGjK

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by spookthesunset on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:34PM (#28269856)
You have that as a log chart?

Here, I’ll do you better: https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by skytreader on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:06PM (#28270127)
Such dishonest statistics, this source. For example,

> One of these neighboring Southeastern states had a statewide mask mandate. The other two did not.

> [Shown: COVID-19 Deaths, per million, 7-day average]

But mask mandates do not claim to prevent COVID-19 deaths, rather transmission. A state with relatively low transmission but poor healthcare infra will see similarly unintuitive/surprising trends.

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by dTal on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:47PM (#28269972)
It is a log chart! Look at the y axis. It's hard to see anything sensible on a linear chart.
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