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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by kenneth on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:43AM (#28274882)
So, you're suggesting that 10% of all people over 60 years old died of Covid since this began? I would love to see you try to find me a source for this statistic.

I'll wait…

Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by ak_111 on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:55AM (#28275009)
No, I am saying that roughly 1% of over-70s died of covid the last two years, then 10x that.
Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by kenneth on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:57AM (#28275777)
Then you should maybe look at the context of what's being said — I was replying to a comment about Norway trading it's "10x lower" covid death rate with Sweden — where 0.014% of people died of Covid.

Your numbers are beyond absurd. But let me quickly disprove it: this study[1] shows the infection fatality rate among patients 70 and older in Stockholm was 4.3%. So, even if every single person over 60 was infected and was actually 70+, then you'd still not have 10% of the people you know over 60 die.

But obviously, 60 year olds are not all 70+, so their rate is lower, and not everyone gets infected (in Sweden so far, only about 10% of the country got infected) — so in your ridiculous example, it's over 50% likely that not a single one of the 100 people you listed dies in this contrived scenario.

But please, show me the data that shows otherwise.

[1]: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/53c0dc391b...