Sweden Shuns Lockdowns, Highest Deaths Per Capita 7 day rolling average

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ronavirus-deaths-world-capita-seven-days.html

Sweden has highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world per capita over the last seven days after shunning lockdowns

Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven day average from May 13 to May 20

This is higher than any other country in the world, worse than the UK (5.57), Belgium (4.28), the US (4.11), Italy (2.97) and France (2.26)

Sweden has not locked down and kept schools, restaurants and shops open

Sweden has the highest per capita coronavirus death toll over the last seven days than any other country in the world after shunning lockdowns.

Sweden had 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants per day on a rolling seven day average from May 13 to Wednesday.

This is worse than any other country; the UK (5.57), Belgium (4.28), the US (4.11), Italy (2.97), Spain (2.62) and France (2.26).

But over the course of the pandemic all of the countries listed above (bar America) have had far more deaths per capita than Sweden.

Spain's numbers are appalling, 594.12 deaths per million people since the start, Italy is on 529.38, the UK's figure is 512.57. Sweden is way behind them with 366.17 deaths per million and the US is on 272.97.

It is also worth noting that all of the countries listed - particularly with reference to the rolling seven day average - have experienced the peak of the virus at different stages.

Sweden's strategy, mostly based on voluntary measures regarding social distancing and basic hygiene, has been criticised by some as a dangerous experiment with peoples lives but also been put forward as a future model by the WHO .

Sweden's open strategy seems to have softened the blow on the economy, with growth shrinking much less than in Denmark and Norway in the first quarter.

Basing its approach on a so-called 'principle of responsibility', Sweden has kept schools open (indeed compulsory) for children under the age of 16, along with cafes, bars, restaurants and businesses, and urged people to respect social distancing guidelines.

Statistics released on Monday showed that Sweden had its deadliest month in almost three decades in April, with a total of 10,458 deaths recorded in the country of 10.3 million people.

'We have to go back to December 1993 to find more dead during a single month,' Tomas Johansson, population statistician at Statistics Sweden, said in a statement.

In total, 97,008 deaths were recorded in Sweden during the whole of 1993, which in turn was the deadliest year since 1918, when the Spanish flu pandemic ravaged the country.

Johansson said there was no official breakdown explaining the high death toll in December 1993 but said there was a flu epidemic at the time.

Karin Ulrika Olofsdotter Sweden's ambassador to the US previously called the country's number of elderly deaths due to covid-19 a 'big failure'.

Honestly I don't know if the Swedish model will work here.

Each nation has a different culture.

We are generally undisciplined and independent. We are also generally ignorant, very few people read the news, research anything, and most simply hear a headline without ever digging into the details. Swedes are more attuned to being social conscious, less independent and more group oriented, they tend to be a bit more orderly as well.

But the story above is also somewhat lacking in detail. While Sweden relied on individuals to be self-disiplined, it also did a better job of educating its population than our country. And Sweden was also subversive in how they manipulated their population. Here in the USA we "closed" our parks and had police patrol the parks. In Sweden they left the parks "open" but they spread chicken poop all over the grass to keep people out of the parks.

Pick your poison?

I know Bob. It is lacking in detail and written with a European point of view. From the Daily Mail. I hesitated but in the end decided it was worth posting here. Take it with a big grain of salt.