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Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by throwaway23487 on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:53PM (#29355103)
Seems like a minuscule percentage.

Is that a pragmatic-enough reason to significantly deteriorate the economy and mental health of the enormous majority of people?

Re:New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529 by marvin on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:11PM (#29355722)
The GDP change in 2020 for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland were -2.8%, -0.8%, -2.7% and -2.8%, respectively.

Sweden had no advantage over its neighbors on the economic outcome, and you'd need to cite real data in order to make an argument for mental health. Naïvely assuming a causal relationship with quarantine measures for both without considering positive effects of better health outcomes (and other factors) is fallacious.