08-04-2021, 01:46 AM
(08-04-2021, 01:03 AM)LP link Wrote:Sweden did some interesting things that left in on the brink of political chaos, when the news about it's failing strategy got bad, it stopped reporting COVID case figures, and tried to rewrite the rules about what is a COVID death to make the numbers look better. The Swedish public are furious, it looks like they will turf out the government.
The Swedish government's action has made it look like a totalitarian state, which is somewhat ironic for it to be offered up as a beacon of hope towards COVID freedom!
The second link is an outright fabrication, Sweden gets more than 1200 deaths per Million of population. So far they have had more than 14,000 die. That was just up until the point they stopped reporting, now open source estimates from NGOs are estimating the death rate has risen beyond 1600 per Million of population. Australia has about 36 deaths per Million.
In Sweden the bad numbers have been rising not falling! :o
Of course they will eventually get to a peak, via one way or the other, but at what cost.
It turns out that the Herd Immunity strategy is an economic disaster as well, they have a small highly skilled population that is being massively disrupted by the symptoms of Long COVID. So far it's economy has dropped -3.5%, not the -1.5% often reported which is actually a 2022 forecast from the Swedish Central bank, not a real number. Now the sceptics will say -3.5% is nothing, but that is relative to Sweden's EU neighbours which have faired much better after taking a more conventional approach, some have even experienced some 2021 growth!
On COVID-19 cases relative to it's neighbours, countries like Denmark, Finland and Norway, it turns out Sweden is 500% worse off in most key infection and case rates.
Finally, the quarterly COVID-19 fatality rate for Sweden is 0.5% per case, worse than the world average of about 0.3% per case. This is despite Sweden being a well resourced technologically advanced country, it should be doing better than most not worse.
No wonder the Swedish public is furious!
I laughed.
So you ignore entirely the excess death numbers. Terrific.
You claim Sweden's death rate is rising now?
Weird. How can an 'average ' rate increase is recent numbers are declining. Confabulation, my guess.
My Swedish mates tell me it barely rates a mention over there these days....
Comparing Sweden to here is straw man fallacy stuff.
Anyway, the data doesn't lie, despite your limp protestations.
Herd immunity - your comments suggests you don't understand the concept.
Are you slipping out of your depth?
Comparing to the other Nordic countries and not Euro countries in general, again, straw man spin.
If you'd looked at excess deaths in the years up to 2020, you'd see Sweden had remarkably lower than average deaths for two consecutive years....there was a lot of 'dry tinder' unfortunately.
#36 globally, #24 in Europe....see attached.
LP, I do love the fact you also just put up 'opinion' without any substance/supporting data other than it supports your narrative.
Are you a science or a marketing guy? Perhaps you're one of Dopey's 100 strong PR team?
For others, who are keen to learn more about the hyped Delta bug...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQ8bneI7vs&t=2s
Finals, then 4 in a row!