Re: COVID
Its clear that Sweden was probably the country that reacted most sensibly of all to the pandemic, with measures that were largely proportionate to the size of the threat.
Well. What you are not saying is that there has not been a day without restrictions in Sweden since March 2020. During a few periods of this time they have even had harder restrictions than their neighbours Norway and Denmark. If they had not had these restrictions, more people would have died.
What is your obsession with Sweden anyway? Could it be you don't want us to remember the military trucks driving out scores of dead from Bergamo, or the stacks of missing bodies found in trucks in New York? Instead of Sweden, why don't we instead talk about Peru, where 0.6 % of the population died from alpha/delta, or Bulgaria or Hungary, where close to 0.5 % of the population died from alpha/delta. All points to alpha/delta having a mortality of around 1 % if not for lockdowns and other measures.
You end by concluding that the higher mortality in the US than in Sweden, was caused by the "disastrous effect of lockdowns on public health". This is where you prove your insanity, or, to give you the benefit of the doubt, your belief that you are only talking to retarded Americans:
Around 150 countries around the world have had lockdowns, and most of these countries have experienced far fewer deaths than Sweden. After the alpha wave, which is where Sweden's course of action diverged most from its neighbours, the deaths per capita in Sweden were 5-10 times higher than its neighbours Denmark, Norway and Finland, which all implemented hard lockdowns in spring 2020. At this point Sweden was in the top-10 of countries with most deaths per capita in the world.
Since they aligned their restrictions to similar levels as their neighbours, at points even harsher, and with the rollout of vaccines, Sweden has steadily improved. Some Swedes kept saying that the neighbouring countries would catch up to the death totals over time. Well they were wrong, because here we are, with an Omikron strain that does not kill anybody that have had their 3 or 4 shots.
First of all, I have not said a damn thing, I'm just posting parts of Dr Rushwroth's blog post.
The reason he posts about Sweden is probably because he lives there, and works at the Karolinska hospital, I wouldn't call that an obsession.
I posted it because I found the stats (and graphs in the original link) interesting. If you could post the same stats for other countries for comparison I would find that equally interesting.
I would be especially interested in the overall mortality year on year from 1991 to 2021, in those countries, especially Denmark Norway and Finland.
If the mortality is indeed higher in Sweden than the three neighboring countries, that would mean that he is wrong. But I would like to se actual stats, not just your word.
I would also like to point out that local tops, like the ones in Italy and NYC you are referring to doesn't necessarily affect the yearly stats.
Edit, I forgot, the mortality rate for Omicon patients is the same regardless of vaccination status, at least it was last week when I checked.
Edit again, I would be interested in hearing your take on the higher mortality in the US, what do you think caused it?
