The Sweden Model

[Darts]

What is the latest update on the Sweden model? How are they faring with the latest Omicron variant?
Covid-19: Whatever happened to pandemic pariah Sweden? | Stuff.co.nz

 

[jcpro]

Here's another take.

Judgment day: Sweden vindicated

Austria, one of the most repressive European countries during the coronavirus pandemic, has recently overtaken Sweden in terms of total covid mortality, showing that almost all government intervent…

swprs.org

 

[benstt]

No surprise, they've continued to do worse than their close neighbors.

 

[Valcazar]

They are doing reasonably well right now, with some of the other Nordic countries having recent spikes, but overall by proportion of population, they got hit much harder.

 

[SQUAD51]

There is pleny of data on this website for everyone.
You can look at all manner of data by country, continent, low, middle and high income groups.
Severity of lockdown, cases, variants -its all there.

COVID-19 Data Explorer

Explore global data on COVID-19.

ourworldindata.org

 

[Valcazar]

There is pleny of data on this website for everyone.
You can look at all manner of data by country, continent, low, middle and high income groups.
Severity of lockdown, cases, variants -its all there.

COVID-19 Data Explorer

Explore global data on COVID-19.

ourworldindata.org

They do good work (not just for COVID).
Useful for all kinds of things.

 

[Rako3]

Here's another take.

Judgment day: Sweden vindicated

Austria, one of the most repressive European countries during the coronavirus pandemic, has recently overtaken Sweden in terms of total covid mortality, showing that almost all government intervent…

swprs.org

Quite a leap of logic in that article.

"Thus, the fact that Austria has now overtaken Sweden in terms of total covid mortality really means that almost every single government intervention in Austria – and almost everywhere else – has been entirely ineffective from an epidemiological and medical perspective, while having caused almost unprecedented social and economic harm."

They found a data point, which automatically nullifies the very different data for South Korea, Japan, etc. Since Austria has high mortality, we all should have followed the Sweden model....and suffered 1500 deaths per million people. Um, no thanks.

 

[Mr.Know-It-All]

So they had a handful of more deaths over a two year period of time, yet enjoyed complete freedom over the same period. They did it right.

 

[basketcase]

So they had a handful of more deaths over a two year period of time, yet enjoyed complete freedom over the same period. They did it right.

I've always said the same thing about seat belts.

 

[Valcazar]

So they had a handful of more deaths over a two year period of time, yet enjoyed complete freedom over the same period. They did it right.

If by "a handful" you mean "more than twice of Canada's death toll per capita" and "more than triple their neighbors" and by "complete freedom" you mean "many restrictions such as proof of vaccination, restrictions on the sizes of gatherings, social distancing, and proof of negative tests to do things".

 

[squeezer]

So they had a handful of more deaths over a two year period of time, yet enjoyed complete freedom over the same period. They did it right.

One day, you will actually make a post that has some reality infused in the drivel but carry on, it's entertaining.