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    You might remember someone saying her friends had told her the Philippines would be introducing Swedish model covid19 rules?

    Here they are in my city introduced today. The city is divided into 29 barangays with checkpoints between them. Very Swedish model

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    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...says-1.4370626

    WHO official estimates that 750m people globally have likely had coronavirus to date
    With 1 million deaths that makes for a mortality rate of 1/750 = 0.13%

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrgoodkat:
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...says-1.4370626



    With 1 million deaths that makes for a mortality rate of 1/750 = 0.13%
    It makes for one million deaths, several million seriously ill, an unknown number long term health problems. That then needs to be multiplied by the rest who are yet to be inflected. That assumes of course we believe the death figures from.some countries.

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    Would have thought there would be a babyboom?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54429706

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    US has experienced a 20% increase in "excess deaths" from March to August this year. 67% of that increase is related to Covid:

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2771758


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    The left are always looking of opportunities to make Sweden a success story, on every topic.

    Good to see the mask is slipping.

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    Ah so when Katherine said her "policy maker" friends told her the Philippines was moving to the Swedish model (still waiting) what she really meant was Sweden was moving to the Philippine model.

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    Sweden was always light touch in its interventions, it was never 'do nothing'; only the fools who can't comprehend nuance claim as such.

    As for exactly the same 2nd wave as the rest of Europe- more bullshit - The UK has averaged 120-140 deaths per day for the last week (still moderately low compared with the 2300 all cause deaths per day) whilst Sweden has averaged 1.7 deaths per day over the last week, which scaled up to UK's population is 11 deaths per day. By population (double that of Fin/Nor/Den) it's also on a par with or better than it's neighbours

    Sweden certainly has been a success story since the summer. Being able to live freely with minimal restrictions counts for a lot to most people. Only the 2 dimensional unimaginitive corporate drone types view the world as divided into only mortality or money.

    With less restrictions, Sweden's cases are very much on a par too with the other Scandinavians.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GentleGeorge:
    The left are always looking of opportunities to make Sweden a success story, on every topic.

    Good to see the mask is slipping.
    I don't know which planet you've been living on, but any "leftist" media I've seen that mentioned Sweden has been very critical or skeptical about its approach. Meanwhile right-leaning groups, especially in Europe have been lauding Sweden and criticised lockdown approaches elsewhere in Europe. Strange comment.
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