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New Study Finds Sweden’s Refusal To Lock Down Saved The Economy Without Sacrificing Lives
thefederalist ^ | 08/10/2020 | Sumantra Maitra

Posted on 08/10/2020 7:17:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

To prove a study isn’t suffering from selection bias, one of the best methods is to find cases or studies with similar precepts that show different results. When conclusions and expertise are constantly challenged by counter-conclusions and counter-expertise, the better the investigative process becomes, and everyone benefits with a better-refined outcome. In studying different results of similar assumptions, we have a better chance of isolating and understanding causal variables.

After five months of a total collapse of social life under forced quarantines, if we are indeed facing a second wave with no vaccines yet, it’s time to declare that Sweden’s approach was correct all along. While the majority of political leaders around the globe panicked, lost their nerve, and — at least temporarily — wrecked our countries, that wasn’t the case everywhere.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: covid; economy; lockdown; sweden

1 posted on 08/10/2020 7:17:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tell this is all they dumb f*&( mayors and governors who locked down healthy people and made it worse.


2 posted on 08/10/2020 7:17:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

White privilege?...


3 posted on 08/10/2020 7:19:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hell, tell Trump.

He has been quite critical of the Swedes in some
of his pressers.


4 posted on 08/10/2020 7:28:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Little by little, the truth will come out and be undeniable.

Democrats kill Americans for political gain.


5 posted on 08/10/2020 7:31:18 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s mostly because he’s American, and Americans throw in pooh-poohs at the Europeans whenever they can.


6 posted on 08/10/2020 7:32:24 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Coronavirus deaths per million:

Sweden 580
USA 500

They aren’t much worse than us, and we destroyed the economy and millions of livelihoods for nothing.


7 posted on 08/10/2020 7:33:13 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: aspasia

Yet at the same time he was saying “the governors are doing a great job” which had my head about to explode.


8 posted on 08/10/2020 7:38:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PghBaldy

Not only that, but COVID deaths in Sweden are practically zero. In the US and elsewhere, that “14-day” flattened curve keeps producing results.


9 posted on 08/10/2020 7:39:30 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This needs to be known.

Our P.O.S. media reports about CCP virus as if everyone in the entire world locked down, and Sweden doesn't exist.

10 posted on 08/10/2020 7:43:20 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And he gets along with Cuomo. Who wouldn’t prefer Churchill?


11 posted on 08/10/2020 7:46:36 AM PDT by aspasia
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Who wouldn’t prefer Churchill?



"CHURCHILL! With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN!"

12 posted on 08/10/2020 7:49:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Tell this is all they dumb f*&( mayors and governors who locked down healthy people and made it worse.

Include the screeching mask-Karens and the rest of the sheep.

13 posted on 08/10/2020 7:49:26 AM PDT by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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The plumber who came to fix the sink: "The coronavirus hysteria is just another strategy to get rid of Trump."

Nurse in the doctor's office: "No, I'm not worried about the coronavirus. It'll all be over after the election."

14 posted on 08/10/2020 7:53:16 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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To: dfwgator

Here’s a pacifist argument: They should have let the Germans take England . . . they would have left on their own accord.


15 posted on 08/10/2020 7:54:43 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: ChicagoConservative27
But the Democrats want to ruin the economy, as a strategy for getting rid of Trump before he can reveal the truth about them and throw them in jail.
16 posted on 08/10/2020 7:57:13 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, loving God, America, and the American People, is on the Side of GOD and the Angels!)
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“As the pandemic struck, the Swedes normalized as much as they could, while maintaining a measure of social distancing. What Sweden did not do, unlike most of the globe, is reflexively dive into a full-lockdown scenario. Instead, they allowed life to go continue as ordinarily as possible. Stores remained open. Restaurants remained open. Most importantly, schools remained open as well. The state banned public gatherings of more than 50 people, but any further social distancing measures were largely unenforced and voluntary.”

The big difference between Sweden and USA, Sweden citizens are able to accept social distance and practice wearing mask where needed. Americans are not able to do this due to politics.

“More than 5,500 people have died with Covid-19 in this country of just 10 million. It is one of the highest death rates relative to population size in Europe, and by far the worst among the Nordic nations. Unlike Sweden, the rest all chose to lock down early in the pandemic.” “Sweden's unemployment rate of 9% remains the highest in the Nordics, up from 7.1% in March.”

Did Sweden's coronavirus strategy succeed or fail?


Deaths
Is it a true statement: they did not sacrifice lives?

The numbers above do not show that. Sweden had the highest death rate relative to population size in Europe. However, they still limited the numbers of deaths by practice social distancing and wearing mask when the rest of Europe was lock down. It could have been worse if they did not social distance and wear mask.

Note: A lot of people that are using Sweden as an example do not want to practice social distancing and wearing mask. Overall, I think Sweden did better, but the USA would not be able to do it.

How can we do like Sweden when we do not except social distancing and wearing a mask in the USA?


Economy
They still had a remarkably high death rate but there economy only shank 8.6 compare to European Union average of 11.9%.

Is 8.6% still a noticeably big deal?

The European Union average is 11.9 only 3.3 percent more than Sweden. Sweden unemployment rate is at 9%, this does not look like a saved economy.

Did they really save their economy that shrank to 8.6% and unemployment rate of 9%?
17 posted on 08/10/2020 8:05:37 AM PDT by DEPcom
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18 posted on 08/10/2020 8:57:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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