Thread by @ncdave4life

@johananderberg @unherd Sweden relied more heavily on voluntary measures than other Scandinavian countries did, and, unfortunately, they paid a heavy price for it. Their death rate from Covid-19 was MUCH WORSE than neighboring countries, and 5.4× worse than those countries' average Covid-19 death rates.

@johananderberg @unherd Most Eastern European countries did even worse than Sweden, as did the United States and a few other Western European countries. But that certainly doesn't mean Sweden did well. The Swedish experiment was a disaster.

@johananderberg @unherd These figures for Sweden & neighbors are from Sept:

Norway:
850 deaths / 5,473,010 population = .016%

Finland:
1062 / 5,551,240 = .019%

Denmark:
2,634 / 5,817,126 = .045%

Sweden:
14,767 / 10,176,187 = .145%

That's almost as bad as the USA:
697,041 / 333,373,690 = 0.209%

@johananderberg @unherd The good news is that although Sweden's vaccination program got off to a slow start, their vaccination rate now exceeds most other countries, including the United States. That's lowering Sweden's rates of new Covid-19 cases and deaths:

ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-…

@johananderberg @unherd BTW, @unherd are very economical with the truth.

@johananderberg @unherd I wanted to post a comment on an unherd article, and at the bottom I read:

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So I clicked the button, and signed up.

@johananderberg @unherd After I signed in, I returned to the article. But when I sought to post a comment this is what I read:

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They advertised "free" but then requested 95p/week.

@unherd lied.

@johananderberg @unherd If @unherd lies in their business dealings, why should I trust their journalism?

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