Posted on 05/05/2020 10:41:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sweden has employed one of the loosest restrictions to the coronavirus.
Unlike its European neighbors, there was no lockdown, bars, restaurants are open, as are hairdressers and gyms.
The results havent been terrible, though Sweden does have high-profile critics, including U.S. President Donald Trump, who tweeted that the fatalities were lower in neighboring Scandinavian countries.
While Trump is right, Swedens number of deaths per million residents is lower than other European countries including Spain, Italy and the U.K.
(At 243, according to Deutsche Bank-compiled figures, Swedens deaths per million residents is higher than the U.S. at 211.)
The early economic numbers seem to be, on the surface, favorable. Activity as measured by Googles GOOG, +3.10% tracker of mobile phone usage hasnt dropped in Sweden as much as it has in other countries.
Still, analysts at Goldman Sachs say Sweden benefits from favorable demographics. Its population density is about half that of Italy, and Sweden has a high proportion of single-occupancy households, the analysts point out.
When the Goldman analysts combine proportion of single-occupancy households, the share of population aged at least 65 years old, hospital beds per million and confirmed cases per million, Sweden is more or less where one would forecast.
We conclude that Sweden is not particularly suited as a reference point for Coronavirus response of other countries, as our analysis suggests that lower infection rate is likely to reflect in part less testing, while demographic and health-care factors may help explain fatality rate. In our view, the Swedish experience therefore cannot be extrapolated
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Pretty much.
These are about the weakest arguments I have ever seen concerning coronavirus.
First the media and their Democratic Party masters pushed the “Sweden is doomed” story really hard. Then when it turned out Sweden was far far better off in coronavirus deaths than Italy Spain The UK Belgium New York State New Jersey Connecticut Michigan etc, and all without economy crushing lockdowns, these clowns at Goldman Sachs come up with the most convoluted bizarre nonsensical arguments ever to try to convince us, “Oh no, it could never be done here”. Chuckle.
What does Goldman Sachs have to say about Seoul South Korea, which has a bigger population than NYC yet has had only 2 deaths to NYC’s close to 15,000 deaths then?
You know, President Trump suggested that to start off with, that is quarantining off NYC and it's environs from the rest of the country. But then he let himself be talked out if it. Shoulda stuck with it.
It is not too early... No non locked down country has experienced more death numbers when compared with locked down countries. Locking down was a failure both in terms of lives saved and in terms of economic ruin. The lives lost due to economic ruin will be larger than the corona death count.
BTW... Japan... 526 deaths among 126 million people... NY City... 19,067 deaths among 8.4 million... What other evidence do you need other than that?
What people dont factor into this is that Sweden is a very homogeneous society. This is why their version of socialism works for them.
Or the Rinkeby area of Stockholm.
As is South Korea.
But....but....Diversity Is Our Strength, don'cha know.
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