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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by mannerheim on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:13AM (#28272275)
That's not an accurate figure for the density where a typical Swede lives. Most of the population lives in the southern part of the country, a quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area as well.

It's like using Canadian population density with the whole country when almost the entire population lives within a hundred miles of the US border.

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by dmitriid on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:57AM (#28272696)
> quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area

You've never been to Stockholm metro area. It's very sparsely populated compared to many big metro areas.

Stockholm is a small city (800k people or so) surrounded by villages (another 1.5 million people) spread over 6,519.3 km2. Density is 360/km2

And that's the biggest city in the country.

In comparison, Paris (as we were talking about France): 13 mln people over 18,940.7 km2 with a density of 690/km2. That's for metro area. Urban area alone is 10 mln people with density of 21,000/km2

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by mannerheim on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:31AM (#28273145)
I was in Stockholm last week. My point is that 25/km^2 is an absurd figure to use because northern Sweden has more reindeer than people.
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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by supperburg on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:31AM (#28272861)
But when you look at the average distance between two random people who live in the same town/city it would probably indicate that lack of contact doesn’t explain any success they’ve had with their numbers
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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by dmitriid on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:26AM (#28273119)
Elsewhere people have already pointed this out: Swedes also have smaller families and a large proportion of people living alone, which (positively) contributed to numbers more than population density.

Which is why Tegnell had the gall to blame immigrants for the spread of Covid-19. Immigrants live in more densely populated areas.

And all this still doesn't explane a significantly larger mortality rate than immediate neighbors that have similar populations.

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