• Judging from the numbers in the New Statesman article below Sweden still doing 'better' than the UK in terms of death.

    For a country of 10 million people with a low population density, and infection numbers still increasing, I'd say it's not looking too rosy at all for the Swedes. How are you defining 'better' in quotation marks?

  • You cant look at population density at a whole for a country. Its not relevant. Covid is what seems to be a cluster spread so if you have 2 million ppl (about 20% of population) living in stockholm where density is higher than in london for instance. Than it does not matter if we have a lots of land in the north where no one lives anyways..

    Id say we are doing better as its no longer on everyones mind here. For good or bad its like we are passed corona in stockholm. Ppl are more or less doing what they always did, hard to see any differences in day to day life right now tbh.

    Its impossible at this stage to interpet different strategies. Could sweden have had lower death with a different one, its likely. At what cost and how much lower, dunno. Could we have had anything close to norway or finlands numbers, personally i dont think so. I believe we had way more cases and a much more widespread decease at that point in time than those countries.

  • 'better' as I'm uncomfortable with sport style league tables when discussing death. Not intended as an arch comment.

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