Sweden’s Coronavirus Approach Is Starting To Look Like A Mistake

HOTAIR ^ | April 9, 2020 | John Sexton

[familyop]

Sweden has a population of only a little over 10 million—about that of a U.S. state of medium population density.

[wastedyears]

Wish our state governments were handling it the same way.

[AppyPappy]

They might be wiping out the immigrants with this plan.

[napscoordinator]

Yep!

[Regulator]

How many have died from having mass immigration from the middle east in Sweden? Is there the same anguish over that?

Where did this virus come from? It wasn’t Sweden. It was from elsewhere, allowed in by hyper liberal policies. Probably not even Chinese, but other Europeans also affected.

The real question is not how many die from how they manage it, but why it had to happen in the first place.

[lepton]

Here are some numbers:

Nordic/Germanic countries from 3/9:
“How is it that Germany has 800 cases and zero deaths? Other countries are similar. Norway, Sweden, hundreds of cases, no deaths.”
Germany has 1151 cases, no deaths
Norway, 176 cases, no deaths
Sweden with 203 cases, no deaths
Finland, with 30 cases, no deaths
Denmark, with 35 cases, no deaths

3/16, Sweden has its 3rd death.
3/20, 16, 0.98% fatalities/case
Date case dth rcvr dth/case
3/23 2046 .27 .16 1.32%
3/24 2299 .40 .16 1.74%
3/25 2526 .62 .16 2.45%
3/26 2840 .77 .16 2.71%
3/27 3069 105 .16 3.42%
3/28 3447 105 .16 3.05%
3/29 3700 110 .16 2.97%
3/30 4028 146 .16 3.63%
3/31 4435 180 .16 4.06%
4/01 4947 239 103 4.83%
4/02 5568 308 103 5.53%
4/03 6131 358 205 5.84%
4/04 6443 373 205 5.79%
4/05 6830 401 205 5.87%
4/06 7206 477 205 6.62%
4/07 7693 591 205 7.68%
4/08 8419 687 205 8.16%

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Sweden is purposely thinning the herd.

[A_perfect_lady]

France had the most deaths today (1,341) followed by the UK (881), and then Spain (655) and Italy (610.) I wonder why France is getting slammed so hard. Immigrant populations in no-go zones? Or what?

[packrat35]

Wow, something Sweden got right.

[nickcarraway]

It’s not true that Germany has zero deaths. They have more than 2,500 deaths.

[A_perfect_lady]

They might be wiping out the immigrants with this plan.

Doubt it. Most of their immigrants are healthy young men of Prime Jihadi age. This is more likely to clear out the old white Swedes clogging up their medical system.

[teevolt]

It is amazing how just questioning the need for shutdown and people get hysterical. Not just libs either. Just takes some numbers without context and down the drain goes liberty.

[cgbg]

Perhaps Sweden will “take one for the team” and we will find out just how bad this virus really is....

(The problem is that a rising overflow at hospitals and death count tends to un-nerve politicians...so it is very hard to test this in the real world.)

[maddog55]

Hot dogs come 10 to a pack yet hot dog rolls come with 8 or 12.

[JayGalt]

I thought that too on first reading but the stat is from 3/9
Nordic/Germanic countries from 3/9:

[Steve_Seattle]

"In the past few weeks, the country has experienced a bizarre nationalistic wave dubbed “public health nationalism” . . . "

Here we see the sleight-of-hand. Sweden, which has long been hailed by the left as a model of anti-nationalism, globalism, mass immigration, secularism, and socialism, is suddenly in the grip of a hitherto unknown phenomenon known as "public health nationalism."

But perhaps it is just the opposite; perhaps Sweden, which has expressed in various ways a desire for cultural suicide, simply doesn't have the motivation to try to save itself, and would rather ignore the threat and go about its daily business. Maybe this is just one more instance - not of nationalism - but of national self-hatred.

[edwinland]

Sweden’s Coronavirus Approach Is Starting To Look Like A Mistake

Is it too much to ask that headline writers read the article before they write the headline?

I'm not going to argue that their approach is right or wrong. But, the article gives no facts whatsoever to show that their approach is already "starting to look like a mistake." They quote a few people saying it will turn out to have been a mistake.

A more accurate headline would be:

Sweden’s Coronavirus Approach Has its Doubters"

[LisaFab]

Is it too much to ask that headline writers read the article before they write the headline?

I'm sure the headline is in reference to the dreaded "public health nationalism."

[lepton]

It’s not true that Germany has zero deaths. They have more than 2,500 deaths.

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Please note the 3/9 date, which was when the original post was made to me about the whole Nordic/Germanic area having only a couple of deaths between them.