I don't look to Sweden for leadership on gun control nor am I expecting their largely homogenous pool of obedient citizens to blaze a trail for Americans. But all is not as well as flubros want us to think in the land of løveli lakes and the wønderful telephøne system.
We all knew Sweden would experience a higher spike than the US. But, IMO, they are looking at two curves (the economic curve is #2) or perhaps three curves (potential unrest is #3) and are not fixated on the one (Covid-19) curve like we are.
They made decisions on how to balance them and have decided that keeping the economy moving and the people happy is worth the higher infections and attendant casualties. If their hospitals aren’t overrun, then it sounds to me like they have it contained, despite the higher proportional death count.
We’ll see how well this carries them through any “second wave,” but my amateur guess is they will weather it better.
Spoken like a true alarmist chicken little. LOL
So? The Swedes believe herd immunity will be achieved by May while we have to OpenSocial distancing all summer.
Unlike America, they are willing to speak honestly about their mainstream news.
Flubros aside, Sweden made the unique judgement that the best path for them was to take measured steps (social distancing, protecting the most vulnerable from exposure), to mimimize the economic damage, and their health care system would not be overwhelmed.
So far they have been correct.
The 72.5k adjusted fatality value is achieved by dividing Sweden's fatality total by its population then multiplying that quotient by the US population. This figure isn't time-adjusted but putting things in context is important.Meaningless garbage.
I don't look to Sweden for leadership on gun controlWhat does your opinion of their "leadership" on gun control have to do with anything?
nor am I expecting their largely homogenous pool of obedient citizens to blaze a trail for Americans. But all is not as well as flubros want us to think in the land of løveli lakes and the wønderful telephøne system.More meaningless garbage from someone a little too full of themselves.
WTF is "the local.se? clickbait?
Did you know that Sweden is much better than France, Italy,
Spain, and the U. K. in deaths per million?
Even if they count differently, they are far less than those
other nations.
The U. S. has a very low DPM.
We’re 16th on the list. Sweden is 11th.
Spain, Italy, France, and the U. K. are 4th, 5th, 6th, and
7th, in that order.
Here are there DPM in order, 496, 441, 350, and 305.
Sweden is 217 per million.
You’d have to add 40% to Sweden’s DPM to equal the lowest
of those four, and 129% for it to equal the highest of
the four.
Any way you slice it, Sweden shows pretty well against them.
It’s in no way a wipe out.
I would gladly take their slightly higher case numbers and their very healthy economy over our approach.
Gladly.
Eh, they’re probably counting deaths from moose bites as COVID-19. Moose bites kan be nasty.
Yesterday there was another post from this Swedish newspaper. I found the below pasted excerpt very interesting.
Are old people not being admitted to ICU in the USA? I think not. Maybe that is the situation in Europe, but somehow I doubt it is the case in the USA.
‘’’’And the number of patients receiving intensive care is not the same as the number of seriously ill patients. People who are especially at-risk due to factors such as old age or underlying conditions may not be admitted to intensive care if doctors judge that they would be unlikely to survive the treatment (this kind of assessment, or something similar, exists in every country). As of April 14th, there was still spare capacity in Sweden’s intensive care units.”””
https://www.thelocal.se/20200414/understanding-swedens-figures-on-the-coronavirus