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I live in Sweden and honestly, I'm glad I do. The rest of the world seems to have forgotten human rights, natural immunity, how to look up statistics, how viruses work etc.

We are going back into offices in October. The pandemic is over here, and it never was even very serious.

About 1500 people under 50 died of covid, from 10.2 million. That's a survival rate of 99.9995%.

If you count the older people, it's "only" 99.995%.

Some pandemic. I know it was bad in the US but most likely because the population is in poor health due to the country thinking poor people should eat shitty foods and never have any time outside of work.

I think the covid response in different countries shows a lot about how they view humans.

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I'm glad my home country that's a neighbor of Sweden got only 6% of the death count Sweden had.

I'm glad I can say with a good heart that my country took care of the old, including my own parents and grandparents. It's a real test of the country's values.

Sweden did better than all neighbors in taking care of the old though.

https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/#...

That is the life expectancy given 2020 years mortality. Neighboring old people died less of covid but died more of other causes. Note sure if you should see that as a win. And even if you do, maybe you should consider that many other factors in society are way more important than the covid response, it is a very minor factor as we can see here.

The figures I can google quickly for Sweden are about 14,700 deaths out of 10,500,000 population. The corresponding survival rate is 99.86%. Do you have a source for the 99.995% figure?

And your comment shows a disdain for the elderly that is very much reflected in the treatment of the elderly in Sweden overall.

We put our elders in nursery home and visit them once a year if lucky. I think that is why the response is regarded as a success in Sweden. Older people dying is just a relief.

There are 2 kinds of people/governments during a pandemic: Those with okay parents, and those who need that inheritance/medical savings

On a serious note, were Sweden's larger deaths early on in the pandemic when the government could be given a pass thinking COVID would be more easily controlled than it was? Or was it a long slow crawl? It's not like it would be easy to move thousands of elderly out of nursing homes to control things anyway. Nursing homes are not anywhere close to isolation wards so it might have been inevitable outcome.

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