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Default Sweden tops Europe COVID-19 deaths per capita over last seven days

On Wed, 20 May 2020 14:54:11 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 4:54:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2020 19:41:01 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

And all this time it was preached to us here that everything was better in Sweden


It looks like Sweden's laissez faire Covid policy is catching up:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-casualties/sweden-tops-europe-covid-19-deaths-per-capita-over-last-seven-days-idUSKBN22V26A



We still might find out it is better in Sweden.
Everyone seems to accept the idea that cases will rise, maybe very
rapidly when they lift the lock down. The question is whether Sweden
still looks that bad after the dust settles from that. One thing that
is sure. Their economy will emerge in much better shape and they won't
have racked up the debt most countries did.

They are still doing better than most of Europe, in spite of that
misleading headline.

Per capita deaths
Belgium 797.4
Spain 594.52
Italy 532.32
United Kingdom531.53
France 417.83
Sweden 367.57
....
United States 280.59


What? Based on that, Trump is doing a great job!


The left always likes to bash the US, particularly if they don't hold
the White House and both houses of congress.

These "scare you all the time" people don't bother to say they are
comparing the absolute number of deaths in the US to a country the
size of Wyoming with the population of New Jersey.