Posted on 07/31/2020 7:18:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Amid fears over a potential second wave of the novel coronavirus across Europe, new infections in Sweden, where full lockdown measures were not implemented, have mostly declined since late June.
The number of new cases per 100,000 people in Sweden reported over the last 14 days since July 29 dropped by 54 percent from the figure reported over 14 days prior to then, according to the latest report Wednesday from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Meanwhile, other parts of Europe have reported large spikes in new cases over the same period, including Spain, France, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands, which have seen increases between 40 and 200 percent over the last month, according to the latest WHO report Wednesday.
The seven-day rolling average of Sweden's daily new cases has been dropping consistently since June 29. Its daily case count has been mostly decreasing since June 24, when it reported 1,803 new infections, its largest single-day spike since the outbreak began, according to data compiled by Worldometer.
The seven-day rolling average of daily new deaths in Sweden has also been declining since around April 15, when it reported a record daily death count of 115. The country's latest seven-day rolling averages for daily new cases and daily new deaths stand at 154 and 2.
However, the Scandinavian nation ranks eighth among countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people. It outranks the U.S. and Brazil, which are the world's first and second worst-hit nations in terms of total cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Last week Anders Tegnell, the chief epidemiologist at Sweden's public health agency, who has led the country's COVID-19 response, said the nation's controversial anti-lockdown strategy has been a success "to a great extent," in an interview with UnHerd.
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Herd immunity
History will reveal that the fascists in government aided and abetted by Karens and Chads unnecessarily elongated the impact of the Kung Flu. Had we treated this like we did SARS, it would have been less drastic. That’s certainly the case for our economy.
The Socialists are freer than we are.
Though government programs are Socialist in nature, their economy is probably as free as ours.
Now if they would just expel all Muslims...
The development of herd immunity is not pretty or quick. However in the absense of a safe effective vaccine or a definitive cure, it is the only way humans can deal with a pandemic. The Spanish Flu pandemic took three years, immense suffering an estimated sixty million deaths worldwide before there was herd immunity. Sweden has shown that absent quarantines and lockdowns, it takes about five months to develop “herd immunity” from Covid 19. With quarantines and lockdowns, it takes longer and “second waves” will be inevitable. Despite all measures the vast majority of humans everywhere will eventually be exposed to this virus.
No, in terms of total reported/confirmed cases. I think there's about a 0% chance that China doesn't lead the world in number of total actual cases, and actual deaths from Covid. And India is second.
Just because they don't test or publicly report the results of tests as much as we do doesn't mean they have fewer cases, or fewer deaths.
RE: The Socialists are freer than we are.
Sweden? Socialist? Don’t buy that Bernie Sanders meme.
Sweden did experiment with socialism briefly in the 1970s and 1980s. This made the country famous, but it almost destroyed it. And learning from this disaster, the left and the right have, in relative consensus, liberalized Sweden’s economy more than other countries, even though it is still far from its classical liberal past.
Heck, Sweden has complete school choice. The government provides families with vouchers for each child. These vouchers can be used to attend regular public schools, government-run charter schools, or private, for-profit schools. Clearly, the use of government funds to pay for private, for-profit schools is the opposite of socialism.
Yes, they offer government-paid healthcare, in some cases tuition-free university educations, and rather generous social safety nets, all financed with high taxes. However, it is possible to do these things without interfering in the private sector more than required. It is allowing businesses to be productive that produces the high corporate and personal incomes that support the tax collections making the government benefits feasible. The Nordic countries are smart enough not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
WATCH THIS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAozEkFyuPs
Bkmk
I’ll watch, but did you read my entire post?
Numbers all over the planet now are becoming irrational and totally out of whack. I think we can point to 3 factors at work here.
- Numbers being dramatically overreported for political reasons.
- Numbers being dramatically underreported for political reasons
- ChiComs spreading deliberate reinfections for political reasons
This pandemic has been utterly, totally politicized.
And not a peep from the CDC, WHO or the sainted and beloved Dr. Fauci (insert reverent pause for angelic cantations upon mention of his holy name).
Sweden wisely yanked.
Yes, Trump runs every level of government /s
Smart people even lifelong (D)generates in blue
states know whose fault every depredation is
Now, back to your fainting couch
Agreed. The European numbers are odd. It certainly doesn’t appear they aren’t using the same criteria to compile numbers.
Some of the countries mentioned in the article have seen a rise in cases, but none that I checked have seen a spike in deaths. In all of the ones I looked at, daily new deaths have remained near zero - fewer than 5 or 10 per day - for two months or more.
India is a 19 deaths / million. HCQ!
"However, the Scandinavian nation ranks eighth among countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people. It outranks the U.S. and Brazil, which are the world's first and second worst-hit nations in terms of total cases, according to Johns Hopkins University."
So, can it be said that Sweden valued it’s economic strength over human life?
Insights welcome.
RE: Some of the countries mentioned in the article have seen a rise in cases, but none that I checked have seen a spike in deaths.
Let’s put it this way — The CDC estimates that there are over 10 times more infections than we have actually discovered.
SEE HERE:
https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/us-coronavirus-infections-10-times-higher-than-reported-cdc/
If deaths do not rise EVEN after more people have been tested positive ( both in Sweden and in other European countries ), this shows that the virus is not as deadly to the total populace as we expect and the lethality is towards a CERTAIN segment of the population ( Those with pre-existing health conditions and the frail elderly ).
So, if infections are on the rise in other countries but not in Sweden, this simply shows that the other countries are simply following the path of Sweden, albeit LATER. You pay now or you pay later, but you’ll still have to pay.
The difference -— Sweden did not have to kill her economy.
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