12-10-2020, 10:45 PM
Don't want to dunk on Sweden again, but again worth noting the discrepancy between Sweden and its Nordic neighbors.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-c...gy-2020-12
They are averaging about 5000 cases and 50 deaths a day for a population of 10 million (500 cases and 5 deaths daily per million).
Finland is averaging 500 cases a day and 3 deaths a day for a population half as large (100 cases and <1 death daily per million).
Norway is at around 600 cases a day and 4 deaths a day for a population of about 5 million (120 cases and ~1 death daily per million).
And it is not even that Sweden doesn't have a lockdown; because of the severity of the pandemic it has had to impose a modified lockdown. The difference is that by letting the virus circulate at higher levels, when the winter surge came it started at a higher base than in the other countries, so it has risen earlier and faster.
The point is not the level of restrictions but the ability to act decisively early and suppress circulating cases to low levels so that when the inevitable second wave happens (and it is happening in all these countries), it doesn't spiral out of control as easily.
BC
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-c...gy-2020-12
They are averaging about 5000 cases and 50 deaths a day for a population of 10 million (500 cases and 5 deaths daily per million).
Finland is averaging 500 cases a day and 3 deaths a day for a population half as large (100 cases and <1 death daily per million).
Norway is at around 600 cases a day and 4 deaths a day for a population of about 5 million (120 cases and ~1 death daily per million).
And it is not even that Sweden doesn't have a lockdown; because of the severity of the pandemic it has had to impose a modified lockdown. The difference is that by letting the virus circulate at higher levels, when the winter surge came it started at a higher base than in the other countries, so it has risen earlier and faster.
The point is not the level of restrictions but the ability to act decisively early and suppress circulating cases to low levels so that when the inevitable second wave happens (and it is happening in all these countries), it doesn't spiral out of control as easily.
BC