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Nurse Aimee O'Rourke, who died fighting to save others
Where do you find the stats for hospitalisations/ages an where do you find the stats for flu to compare?
UK because we live here and are being restricted massively.
Sweden because it is famously avoiding anywhere near full lock down. End of.
If I was cherry picking I'm sure I could've picked a more disparate pairing.
You compare the UK to Sweden because it appears to fit your worldview nicely.
That worldview might be correct, but the Denmark-Sweden comparison challenges it. What's your explanation for that?
Genuinely interested.
If you want to kill off this thread, fine go ahead.
Twice I've said why I pick those two to compare...don't you try and say I pick them for any other reason than I said.
Although I like Denmark...been there many times on business and have made friends with people there. In fact where I live is twinned with Aalborg...a place I've been several times and have friends there. Despite that - Denmark is in lock down...but it doesn't effect me, or you, or probably anyone else on this forum Diablo. Does what's happening in Denmark effect you one iota? Nor me.
But what's happening in the UK is vital to me, and everyone (probably) on this forum.
Got that? Got why I use the UK as one side of the comparison? Hmm?
Now...Sweden is the closest and largest country that I know of that isn't enforcing a full lock down.
Do you know of a bigger or closer country that doesn't have a full lock down? If you do, tell us.
Don't try saying you know my motives better than me.
If you want to compare other countries, go ahead.
Todays numbers - extrapolated to equal population size;
UK - 3743 new cases - 42433 total cases - 708 deaths
Sweden - 2000 new cases - 41320 total cases - 96 deaths
Interesting, but my impression is that the reason Sweden is taking a more relaxed approach than we are is largely that they've not reached the level of infections and deaths that we have – not the other way around.
Eh? The number of confirmed cases is almost identical per capita....when the UK went into lock down we had very few deaths. We went into lock down (aka economic suicide) and they didn't.