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The elite globalists dont care about Sweden
They are being killed off by muslims and socialism, and are making great strides already.
Yes they will.
They know they can control their sheeple.
Their power may be absolute; there no armed revolts.
Just think how low their death rate would have been WITH masks! Or two masks!! /s
Just like FL.
Fauxi,
Articles such as this do not (intentionally or not) always present the full story.
The most truly meaningful metric, with respect to COVID-19 itself, is fatalities per million population. Next to consider would perhaps be COVID related fatalities, suicides, health care delayed, etc., however, no one with solid data is suggesting these overall rival COVID fatalities. Besides, IMO it is too early to get a really good handle on these. Surely, more fallout is still in the wings.
Further strong metrics would be those left with long term problems in both the above categories, but those numbers are even more uncertain.
So, looking only at COVID-19 fatalities, from Worldometers, assuming more or less consistent biases, errors, etc., from country to country, we have:
(Country / fatalities per million persons)
Norway - 120
Finland - 147
World Avg. - 357
Germany - 909
Sweden - 1,321
France - 1,442
USA - 1,688
Italy - 1,776
U.K. - 1,856
Almost certainly, some allowance must be made for WHEN countries first got hit and how badly: Getting hit early and hard, such as Italy, surely skews their numbers up a lot. Ditto for, for example, New York, compounded doubly, I suspect, by Cuomo’s horrid decisions regarding nursing homes.
There is also the issue of citizen self-behavior, and effective education: Lousy in the US, and probably fairly good in Sweden. Norway is of particular interest as my family has a good family friend there: The article claims “less restrictive” measures there than even Sweden, but, my friend related last spring that “everyone follows the rules.” I guess I should ask my friend if the rules were mandated or not, but, in any case, Norway would seem to support the idea that COVID-19 fatalities CAN be mitigated if the mitigation is approached properly. Norway’s economy took a hit, but, I’d have to say it was not awful, esp. given its prior weakness:
https://tradingeconomics.com/norway/gdp-growth
One last thought: Sweden’s cases are on the way back up, and Norway’s cases have bumped to a 4th and new all time high. So, my comments MAY be premature, as may be “analysis” of other countries. However, the vaccines WILL greatly reduce fatalities if most people get them, and if COVID-19 does not mutate around the vaccines faster than the vaccines can be adapted. I would expect a high vaccination rate in countries like Norway and Sweden, and, indeed, their fatalities continue to fall.