In the Coronavirus Fight in Scandinavia, Sweden Stands Apart

WeToddDid2 said:
Yeah, the US should use South Korea's response as an example. I mean its chart illustrating daily new cases looks nothing like that chart in the US.

https://www.statista.com/chart/21674/new-outbreaks-south-korea-china/

Korea's Third Wave Still Unbroken

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So let's do some math. South Korea has a population of 51.6 Million. The U.S. has a population of 328 Million. South Korea is seeing about 1000 new cases per day in recent days -- unlike the U.S, all of them are contact traced revealing all the associated cases. The U.S. has approximately 200,000 new cases per day in recent days - none of those cases basically are contact traced. We are hitting an additional million cases every 4 or 5 days in the U.S.

The number of cases per million population in South Korea is 1000 / 51,600,000 = 0.00001938 new daily cases per million ratio in population.

The number of cases per million population in the U.S. is 200,000 / 328,000,000 = 0.0006098 new daily cases per million ratio in population.

Basically the daily new case rate in the U.S. is 31.5 times the rate in South Korea. Unlike the U.S. every case in South Korea is contact traced.
 
Sweden is now regularly reporting 100 or more new COVID deaths per day. Let's look at today's report...

Sweden registers a record 9,654 new COVID-19 cases on Friday
https://www.metro.us/sweden-registers-a-record-2/

Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy placed it in the global spotlight, registered a record 9,654 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Health Agency statistics showed.

The increase compared with a previous high of 8,881 daily cases recorded on Thursday.

Sweden registered 100 new deaths, taking the total to 7,993. The deaths registered have typically occurred over several days and sometimes weeks, and are added into the Health Agency’s tally which is updated four times per week.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours but lower than several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
 
Welcome to Sweden -- put on your face mask.

Sweden announces toughest Covid measures yet
Move follows king’s admission that country had ‘failed’ to manage pandemic
https://www.ft.com/content/71d67d6d-32eb-47f4-b71a-d4986583e04c

Sweden announced its toughest measures yet against coronavirus, including its first recommendation to use face masks, as its death toll continues to increase.

Prime minister Stefan Lofven announced on Friday evening a range of new restrictions from Christmas Eve, including a recommendation to wear face masks on public transport. He also said that higher secondary schools and many municipal services would be closed for a month, while entrance to shops, malls and gyms would be restricted.

“This year, Christmas has to be different. The situation is still serious . . . The situation in hospitals is very strained,” Mr Lofven told a press conference.

Sweden has been the only country in Europe to resist a formal lockdown in both the first and second waves, but its latest measures move it closer to having introduced a de facto closure of large parts of its society.

Other measures announced on Friday included restricting the size of groups meeting in restaurants and bars to four people, while the serving of alcohol is prohibited after 8pm. Non-essential workers should work at home for a month, the prime minister said.

Mr Lofven also warned that if shopping centres, stores and fitness gyms ignored the maximum limit on people allowed in then they would be closed down.

Asked by the Financial Times if these measures were too little, too late, Mr Lofven said Sweden was sticking to its strategy of taking “the right decisions at the proper time”.

He added: “You must also consider that a very serious lockdown wouldn’t have an effect in the long run because people would not put up with that . . . Locking down a society is also a burden on the population.”

Sweden had also long resisted issuing a recommendation to wear face masks outside hospitals, with health authorities arguing that it could stop people keeping a distance from each other. “We do not believe that it will have a very decisive effect but it can have a positive effect on public transport at certain times,” said Johan Carlson, head of the public health agency.

(More at above url)
 
gwb-trading said:
Welcome to Sweden -- put on your face mask.

Sweden announces toughest Covid measures yet
Move follows king’s admission that country had ‘failed’ to manage pandemic
https://www.ft.com/content/71d67d6d-32eb-47f4-b71a-d4986583e04c

Sweden announced its toughest measures yet against coronavirus, including its first recommendation to use face masks, as its death toll continues to increase.

Prime minister Stefan Lofven announced on Friday evening a range of new restrictions from Christmas Eve, including a recommendation to wear face masks on public transport. He also said that higher secondary schools and many municipal services would be closed for a month, while entrance to shops, malls and gyms would be restricted.

“This year, Christmas has to be different. The situation is still serious . . . The situation in hospitals is very strained,” Mr Lofven told a press conference.

Sweden has been the only country in Europe to resist a formal lockdown in both the first and second waves, but its latest measures move it closer to having introduced a de facto closure of large parts of its society.

Other measures announced on Friday included restricting the size of groups meeting in restaurants and bars to four people, while the serving of alcohol is prohibited after 8pm. Non-essential workers should work at home for a month, the prime minister said.

Mr Lofven also warned that if shopping centres, stores and fitness gyms ignored the maximum limit on people allowed in then they would be closed down.

Asked by the Financial Times if these measures were too little, too late, Mr Lofven said Sweden was sticking to its strategy of taking “the right decisions at the proper time”.

He added: “You must also consider that a very serious lockdown wouldn’t have an effect in the long run because people would not put up with that . . . Locking down a society is also a burden on the population.”

Sweden had also long resisted issuing a recommendation to wear face masks outside hospitals, with health authorities arguing that it could stop people keeping a distance from each other. “We do not believe that it will have a very decisive effect but it can have a positive effect on public transport at certain times,” said Johan Carlson, head of the public health agency.

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I saw this article too but was waiting for either Reuters, Bloomberg or CNN to pick it up.

Yet, if the Covidiots here at Elitetrader.com keeps saying...
  • Everything is OK in Sweden
  • Sweden has achieved herd immunity
  • Model for the rest of the world
Does that now imply that the rest of the world should be wearing a face mask ???

More importantly, Sweden will now be known as the laggers to New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Simply, I strongly believe the Covidiots do not know what the fuck they're talking about just as they were predicting Trump would defeat old man Joe Biden hiding out in his basement.

Unfortunately, Sweden has one big flaw in their belief when they stated the following about wearing face masks...
  • Arguing that it could stop people keeping a distance from each other.
Swedish people were already not practicing social distancing since the late summer. Thus, had they recommended face mask wearing in the late summer...they may have similar like low numbers like New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.

Another way to look at it...governments of any country will take dramatic restrictions when their hospitals reach over-capacity levels or on pace to do such going into the big holiday season.

For example, here in Québec, Canada we are locking down again...even though they promise a few months ago that such will not occur...on December 25th to January 11th mainly because our hospitals are nearing capacity levels.

Only essential businesses will be open.

As shown in an earlier video I posted...too many people here in Québec going to public places like a mall to dance in protest while taking off their masks after gaining entry into the malls. Very similar to the Trump family showing up for the Presidential Debates with their face masks on but then taken them off without permission after they sat down in their seats.

Covidiots

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gwb-trading said:
Sweden is now regularly reporting 100 or more new COVID deaths per day. Let's look at today's report...

Sweden registers a record 9,654 new COVID-19 cases on Friday
https://www.metro.us/sweden-registers-a-record-2/

Sweden, whose unorthodox pandemic strategy placed it in the global spotlight, registered a record 9,654 new coronavirus cases on Friday, Health Agency statistics showed.

The increase compared with a previous high of 8,881 daily cases recorded on Thursday.

Sweden registered 100 new deaths, taking the total to 7,993. The deaths registered have typically occurred over several days and sometimes weeks, and are added into the Health Agency’s tally which is updated four times per week.

Sweden’s death rate per capita is several times higher than that of its Nordic neighbours but lower than several European countries that opted for lockdowns.
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Yes... .see the fear in the eyes of all the idiots who have pushed "natural herd immunity" and "only quarantine the at risk" nonsense.... but don't want to admit it is a fantasy and their "no-lockdown paradise" Sweden has failed miserably.
 
gwb-trading said:
Yes... .see the fear in the eyes of all the idiots who have pushed "natural herd immunity" and "only quarantine the at risk" nonsense.... but don't want to admit it is a fantasy and their "no-lockdown paradise" Sweden has failed miserably.
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Sweden is the model.
Just because they are panicking like idiots, like the rest of the world did before them (a lot of good it did) doesn’t mean they are right.
When faced with a problem with no good solution politicians the world over have reacted in much the same manner - to shut everything down. They tell their constituents, "At least I did something", even when what they do only makes the problem worse.
This is what covidtards don’t get.
Sweden is (was) the model.
 
LacesOut said:
Sweden is the model.
Just because they are panicking like idiots, like the rest of the world did before them (a lot of good it did) doesn’t mean they are right.
When faced with a problem with no good solution politicians the world over have reacted in much the same manner - to shut everything down. They tell their constituents, "At least I did something", even when what they do only makes the problem worse.
This is what covidtards don’t get.
Sweden is (was) the model.
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"Sweden is the model" of complete failure.
 
LacesOut said:
Sweden is the model.
Just because they are panicking like idiots, like the rest of the world did before them (a lot of good it did) doesn’t mean they are right.
When faced with a problem with no good solution politicians the world over have reacted in much the same manner - to shut everything down. They tell their constituents, "At least I did something", even when what they do only makes the problem worse.
This is what covidtards don’t get.
Sweden is (was) the model.
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One of the most uncovered stories of 2020 is the non fatal, but severe outcomes of Covid.

The following is an excerpt of an article from nejm.org:

For epidemiologic purposes, severe Covid-19 in adults is defined as dyspnea, a respiratory rate of 30 or more breaths per minute, a blood oxygen saturation of 93% or less, a ratio of the partial pressure of arterial oxygen to the fraction of inspired oxygen (Pao2:Fio2) of less than 300 mm Hg, or infiltrates in more than 50% of the lung field.12 In a large cohort of symptomatic patients with Covid-19 described early in the pandemic, 81% had mild disease, 14% had severe disease, and 5% became critically ill with organ failure; the mortality in the critically ill group was 49%.12

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcp2009575?query=featured_home

Those with a severe case of Covid can take months to recover.

Covid is a dangerous disease that needs to be taken seriously.
 
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