Keep your eye on Sweden

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They are stepping up and being the global model as to whether this Wuhan Flu is worth tanking the world economy over.
 
LOL Europe is fucked......:D

The EU is falling apart, the UK lucked out....bigly.

Keep your eye on Sweden, seriously. Sweden has taken NO steps to restrain their economy. All they've done so far is ban crowds of more than 500 and told everyone to protect themselves as they would for the flu. That's it. And if their numbers come in no worse than the rest of the world that decided to shut down their nations then everyone is going to have to do some re-thinking.
 
I think it would be interesting in keeping an eye
on both Sweden and New Zealand.
The latter is the only country to institute a full lockdown in the early stages, arguing, in the long run, that this would lead to fewer economic losses.

The economic recession that's looming is scary.

But mind you, those two countries have a low density popullation, and are anal about following rules. Whatever those higher up recommend (wash your hands ++ or such) people follow.

And their officials took the virus seriously.
You don't see crowds like Bondi Beach or Spring Breakers, nor do they have Fox News saying "it's a hoax".
 
Sweden has only 900 more reported cases of Covid-19 than neighboring Norway, but SIX TIMES as many deaths.

The logical conclusion is that there's a ton of unreported disease in the country.
 
Keep your eye on Sweden, seriously. Sweden has taken NO steps to restrain their economy. All they've done so far is ban crowds of more than 500 and told everyone to protect themselves as they would for the flu. That's it. And if their numbers come in no worse than the rest of the world that decided to shut down their nations then everyone is going to have to do some re-thinking.

50, not 500. And it's not all they've done.

But yeah, it's comparatively lax here. So far.
 
A local issue, but Finland is a little bit perturbed about the higher incidence in their border area with Sweden and are contemplating closing it. That would not be good for Sweden because they rely quite a lot on cross border medical support from the Finns.

They will probably work something out.
 
Sweden has only 900 more reported cases of Covid-19 than neighboring Norway, but SIX TIMES as many deaths.

The logical conclusion is that there's a ton of unreported disease in the country.

One reason is different criteria used. But it doen't make up the difference. Denmark is a better comparison in terms of reporting, and the death ratio is still way higher.
 
Keep your eye on Sweden, seriously. Sweden has taken NO steps to restrain their economy. All they've done so far is ban crowds of more than 500 and told everyone to protect themselves as they would for the flu. That's it. And if their numbers come in no worse than the rest of the world that decided to shut down their nations then everyone is going to have to do some re-thinking.

Artist's interpretation of NotIshmael's concerns...(thanks to Quen's Brian May)
https://i.imgur.com/QuoK3Go.jpg
 
One reason is different criteria used. But it doen't make up the difference. Denmark is a better comparison in terms of reporting, and the death ratio is still way higher.

So why do you think you guys are doing so well, with fewer cases?
It's baffling.
 
Keep your eye on Sweden, seriously. Sweden has taken NO steps to restrain their economy. All they've done so far is ban crowds of more than 500 and told everyone to protect themselves as they would for the flu. That's it. And if their numbers come in no worse than the rest of the world that decided to shut down their nations then everyone is going to have to do some re-thinking.

After being told by the left wing media and their toe suckers here on Lit that the Chinese have beaten their home grown virus and were opening up their various venues like theaters to the public again. I note today they closed them all back up again nationwide. Most likely they're getting hit with another wave.
 
I think it would be interesting in keeping an eye
on both Sweden and New Zealand.
The latter is the only country to institute a full lockdown in the early stages, arguing, in the long run, that this would lead to fewer economic losses.

The economic recession that's looming is scary.

But mind you, those two countries have a low density popullation, and are anal about following rules. Whatever those higher up recommend (wash your hands ++ or such) people follow.

And their officials took the virus seriously.
You don't see crowds like Bondi Beach or Spring Breakers, nor do they have Fox News saying "it's a hoax".

Fox news said no such thing.

You repeating that they did is participating in the actual hoax which is the attempt to Katrina Trump. The logistics problems that occurred in New Orleans where entirely the fault of local County and state leadership. All of whom were Democrats. They still with the complicity of the national news media managed to pin the responsibility for their inept handling on Bush.

Trump was correct to call them out for their partisan politicizing of a national emergency.
 
Fox news said no such thing.

You repeating that they did is participating in the actual hoax which is the attempt to Katrina Trump. The logistics problems that occurred in New Orleans where entirely the fault of local County and state leadership. All of whom were Democrats. They still with the complicity of the national news media managed to pin the responsibility for their inept handling on Bush.

Trump was correct to call them out for their partisan politicizing of a national emergency.

Spoiler alert. They did. March 9th to be exact.
 
It's like whack-a-mole except moles are smarter and less stupidly persistent.
 
The truth is that neither President Trump nor Fox referred to the virus as a hoax. They referred to it as the Democrat's new hoax, and that was due to the irresponsible panic they and their media backers caused. Instead of helping the public deal with this pandemic in a calm and informative manner, they had them buying toilet paper in bulk, sanitizer and hand wipes and masks, throwing out click-bait headlines and sensationalist propaganda that President Trump was to blame and all before they began telling people how to best protect themselves.

Did President Trump call the virus a hoax:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-rally-remark/

No, but Democrats won't see it that way while the majority of people have moved on, because we have the present to deal with, and President Trump is killing it in the best way possible: The number don't lie.

:)

Whine about it all you want, it's a sore spot for the Democrats who want to cry, "But, but, but ... he said it! I heard him."

No one but you guys care about repeating it, and that's okay by everyone else. I hope the Dums continue saying it right up to election night because the majority of Americans do not like cry babies. :cool:
 
They are stepping up and being the global model as to whether this Wuhan Flu is worth tanking the world economy over.

The country you should be keeping an eye on is South Korea. Unlike our Governments, theirs took the problem seriously from day one and implemented a Test,Track,Treat policy. The levels of internal restrictions within the country are lower, the spread of Covid 19 is far slower and the death toll is miniscule by comparison.

While Trump was claiming it was a hoax designed to stop him being re-elected and Boris was thinking that a few old people might die while we build up "Herd Immunity" The South Koreans blocked all flights from China and installed Infra-red temperature scanners at all points of entry. That, my friends is the action of a decisive government that cares about it's people and economy. Unfortunately neither the USA or the UK has such a government.
 
The country you should be keeping an eye on is South Korea. Unlike our Governments, theirs took the problem seriously from day one and implemented a Test,Track,Treat policy. The levels of internal restrictions within the country are lower, the spread of Covid 19 is far slower and the death toll is miniscule by comparison.

While Trump was claiming it was a hoax designed to stop him being re-elected and Boris was thinking that a few old people might die while we build up "Herd Immunity" The South Koreans blocked all flights from China and installed Infra-red temperature scanners at all points of entry. That, my friends is the action of a decisive government that cares about it's people and economy. Unfortunately neither the USA or the UK has such a government.

Please stop with the "hoax" bullshit, that NEVER happened. Damn.
 
Please stop with the "hoax" bullshit, that NEVER happened. Damn.

It's like whack-a-mole.

Major lefty "news" sites couldn't even do it with a straight face and repeatedly pinocchio'd it, yet every damned leftist on the board parrots it. Still. Weeks later.

They are proving Trump's point that this was the left's next let's-GET-Trump gambit. They start a new one within a week of the last one petering out.
 
Keep your eye on Sweden, seriously. Sweden has taken NO steps to restrain their economy. All they've done so far is ban crowds of more than 500 and told everyone to protect themselves as they would for the flu. That's it. And if their numbers come in no worse than the rest of the world that decided to shut down their nations then everyone is going to have to do some re-thinking.

I've been pointing that out for over a week now.
It has been ignored, but now it will be trolled...

For some reason, some people want this
to be a plague of Biblical proportion.
 
Please stop with the "hoax" bullshit, that NEVER happened. Damn.

Some people want it to be true and
have heard it repeated so often
they "know" it has to be true.
"Everyone" knows it and
cannot be wrong...

That's right! Once again, it's us versus the "deniers!"
 
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