- Has Sweden not already failed? Archived Message
Posted by walter
on April 27, 2020, 10:36 am, in reply to "“We fear that Sweden has picked the worst possible time to experiment with national chauvinism,” "
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Two comparisons: by case fatality percentage, and by deaths per head of population. (Source, worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries)  By comparison with other countries with major populations, Sweden is 7th highest in the world by case fatality %. Ranked by deaths per per population, Sweden is eighth in the world. By comparison with Scandinavian countries, Sweden is worst by a very long way. On the first table Norway, Denmark and Finland aren't even at the same end of the table. Numerically, using both these measures Sweden's figures are at least 3 times as bad as theirs. Assuming protecting the population is the object - having resulted in unnecessary deaths already seemingly numbering in the thousands, how can it then succeed? Lets not be patriotic - on these measures, the UK is a worse failure. |