Wrong.
Denmark, Finland, and Norway masked and locked down less than Sweden.
They just have less transients and outside contact.
That...is an abject lie
You are the liar.
I know people living in Scandinavia, so I know what is really happening, not what you want to believe.
First of all, the low infection rate in these countries was because most people get to these countries through Sweden, so Sweden was catching the infected people for them.
What kind of bizarre logic let you spew that nonsense? Do you think that you leave the virus behind you when you cross a border?
Sheesh
Second is that these other Scandinavian countries did social distancing even less than Sweden did.
They did just the opposite.
Please stop spewing nonsense
Wrong.
The majority of the traffic to and from these smaller Scandinavian countries, has to go through Sweden, which has the major transportation routes.
So then Sweden was filtering out the infected for these other countries, keeping them safe.
And yes the virus is left behind at the border if one is doing things like checking temperatures at the border.
And YES, Norway, Finland, etc., have even less restrictions than Sweden.
Norway and Finland have some of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. Many have pointed to their success as a contrast to Sweden, which has a much higher COVID-19 death rate. But a key factor is being overlooked.
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Belgium, for example, has the second highest COVID-19 death rate in the world even though it implemented one of the strictest lockdowns in the world (81.5
stringency). Italy and Spain had even harsher lockdowns, and both countries are also among the most devastated by the virus. (Italy’s current death rate is lower than that of Belgium and Spain, but the country is facing a resurgence of the virus that looks positively frightening.)
Italy's pattern looks scary right now. Calls for lockdown are growing.
Prediction: Mass lockdowns are coming again - not because they work, but because for politicians the incentives are obvious. You have to make it look like you're "doing something."
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— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79)
November 12, 2020
We can
measure lockdown stringency because of a feature created by Our World in Data, a research team based at the University of Oxford that produces information in all sorts of wonderful charts and graphs.
While most of the world went into lockdown in March, Swedish officials chose to forgo a full lockdown, opting instead for a “
lighter touch” approach that relied on cooperation with citizens, who were given public health information and encouraged to behave responsibly.
Our World in Data shows Sweden’s government response stringency never reached 50, peaking at about 46 from late April to early June. (As a point of reference, the US averaged a stringency of about 70 from March to September.) This is well below the top stringency of Spain (85) and Italy (94).
Yet, Sweden’s per capita death rate
is lower than Spain, Belgium, Italy and other nations despite the fact that it did not initiate a lockdown. As a result, Sweden’s economy
was spared much of the damage these nations suffered (though not all).
Despite the apparent success of Sweden’s strategy, the Swedes have found themselves attacked. The
New York Times has described Sweden’s policy as a “
cautionary tale,” while other media outlets have used it as an illustration of
how not to handle the coronavirus.
Critics of Sweden’s policy point out that although Sweden has experienced fewer deaths than many European nations, it has suffered more than its Nordic neighbors, Finland and Norway.
This is true, but it needs to be contextualized.
Norway and Finland have some of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world, with 54 deaths per one million citizens and 66 per million respectively. This is well below the median in Europe (240 per million) and Sweden’s rate (605 per million).
What these critics fail to realize is that both Finland and Norway have had
less restrictive policies than Sweden for the bulk of the pandemic—not more lockdowns.
Norway’s lockdown stringency has been less than 40 since early June, and fell all the way to 28.7 in September and October. Finland’s lockdown stringency followed a similar pattern, floating around the mid to low 30s for most of the second half of the year, before creeping back up to 41 around Halloween.
When people compare Sweden unfavorably to Finland and Norway to dismiss its laissez-faire policy, they are drawing the opposite conclusion from what the data point really reveals. Yes, Finland and Norway have lower deaths than Sweden—but they have actually been
more laissez-faire than their neighbor for the majority of the pandemic.
Since June, Finland and Norway have had less restrictive government policies than Sweden, and both nations have endured the coronavirus remarkably well. They have been among the freest nations in the world since early June, and COVID-19 deaths have been miniscule.
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