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That did not answer my question, at all. Why can't Sweden also be compared with the UK and Belgium?

There's no evidence that coronavirus has a climate-related outcome, save for vitamin D sufficiency, which is only partly related to climate.

According to this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Sweden is at number 13 and falling. Many latin American countries as well as UK, Spain, Belgium, US, and Italy have all fared worse on a per capita basis than Sweden.

Coronavirus does not discriminate based on economy. Many first world nations have been hard hit. Coronavirus does not discriminate based on climate, many warm latin american countries are in the top 10. Coronavirus has hit many areas of the US the hardest during the summer.

Sweden has never locked down, never mandated masks, and they currently have only a couple dozen hospitalizations. Their deaths, even by your chart, have completely flatlined at near zero for now going on three months.

Weather does affect spread, because it affects how often folks go outside, where and when they interact with others and so on.

In any case, you've fixated on one similarity and missed the larger point. Comparing Sweden to its immediate neighbours is a stronger comparison than any other. No other countries in the world are as comparable, not even close. When you control using that natural experiment, Sweden comes out much worse.

As a Swede I'm astounded by how Sweden have become a pawn in other people's politics just because we had the "arrogance" of doing something they did not, but here we are. This entire article is false, especially the headline.

Anyway, regarding this point; there's wildly different infection-rates etc in different big cities in Sweden as well.

A more interesting issue is why Belgium can never be compared to Germany and Netherlands, in the same way as Sweden is constantly compared to Norway and Finland.

The way the beliefs are repeated is just as interesting as why the Groupthink has come about in the first place.

It’s a worldview. Note that the elderly have to be protected as though they are cattle rather than being told they can choose to protect themselves if they want.

Top down vs bottom up

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