Totally agree. The carnage has to be accounted for in deaths, new rules and policies, and economic losses before we can assign grades or access which countries did good or poor jobs. In reality no country will do poorly based on counting their own deaths. Its going to look as though every country is doing a great job without an independent death counter. Its like letting the fox count the chickens
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Yeah the only country in the world that is the most infected 1,618,687 and 96,212 deaths from people staying at home?
You need to quit being retarded and start using common sense....
The US population is DUMB as a fukkin rock,PERIOD.......
Their rights outta spite is why the US is so infected and dying......
UK 2nd most freest country in the world 2nd to only the US in the COVID19 deaths category
with 36,042 gone...........Comment -
Thursday total deaths in Norway, finland, and Netherlands = 0
swedens close neighbors, with 2x the populationComment -
Very interesting data!
Thank you for the link to the report you listed in your first paragraph above.
That led to a story posted in the right-wing media source New York Post
where they also show the USA is ranked 9th highest in deaths per million from
coronavirus.
Their story headline is shown below, and it appears you inadvertently missed the
last two words "last week" in your first paragraph above. Easy to edit.
Sweden had most coronavirus deaths
per capita in Europe last week
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More than 3,700 people died of COVID-19 in Sweden as of Tuesday, according to the Financial Times.
Neighboring countries Denmark, Norway and Finland, which have implemented stricter measures, have recorded 551, 233 and 300 deaths, respectively.Comment -
An interesting stat is in tests per million pop:
Denmark 91,000
Norway 42,000
Finland 30,000
Sweden 21,000 (less than half of the US)
It's like the Swedes are in no rush to find more cases.
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Sweden has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world - and it’s getting even worse
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Sweden overtakes France for 5th highest CV death per capita, France yet to report so they might eek back in front. But Sweden will be ahead for good after tomorrow.Comment -
Today Sweden posted their 3rd highest new cases since this started.
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Amsterdam anti-racism rally criticised for lack of social distancing
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam's mayor faced criticism from politicians and health experts on Tuesday after thousands of demonstrators packed the city centre for an anti-racism rally in violation of social distancing rules put in place to ward off the coronavirus.
The protesters rallied in support of George Floyd, a black American who died in police custody in the United States last week, their number swelling from an expected 200-300 to several thousands on Monday.
Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, of the Green Left party, said city authorities were caught off guard by the huge turnout and could not have intervened peacefully. She defended the public's right to demonstrate.
"I had seen how these gatherings grew into massive events in Berlin and London and U.S. cities," she told Dutch public television broadcaster NPO Monday night, but there had been "absolutely no indication it would be this big".
The Netherlands has recorded nearly 6,000 deaths from COVID-19. Authorities have issued fines of around $400 for violating rules not to hold public gatherings, but there were almost no police at Monday's event.
The demonstration, the largest in the Netherlands since lockdown measures were imposed in mid-March, sparked debate about whether the event could cause new infections.
"This is exactly what we don't want," Menno de Jong, a virologist at Amsterdam's UMC hospital and a member of the Dutch national coronavirus crisis team, told the Parool newspaper.
"You don't need to be a virologist to reach this conclusion. There is a reason we have been talking about social distancing for months. This could potentially be a so-called super spreading event."
Klaas Dijkhof, a member of parliament for the VVD party of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, said on Twitter he was "not only angry, but worried by the images out of Amsterdam". He called on demonstrators to voluntarily isolate themselves for two weeks.
Video footage of a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeling on the neck of Floyd, 46, for nearly nine minutes last Monday before he died, has led to global protests.
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The Dutch ought to mind their own business.
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Kinda destroys the idea that social distancing measures don't won't to slow the spread.
The problem is covid hasn't and won't go away and it's going to roar back in the fall/winter. Are Americans going to accept going back to social distancing? Potentially in the midst of an election? Gonna be a mess.Comment -
Sweden's "Fauci" now admits they ****** up
Sweden today saw their highest new case #'s by over 300% of their highest previous daily high.
Sweden has seen a far higher mortality rate than its nearest neighbours and its nationals are being barred from crossing their borders.
Dr Tegnell told Swedish radio more should have been done early on.
Now he has told Swedish public radio: "If we were to encounter the same disease again, knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done."
When asked if too many people had died too soon, Dr Tegnell said, "Yes, absolutely."Comment -
Sweden is rushing to launch a formal inquiry into its no-lockdown coronavirus strategy, as its death rate remains among the world's highest
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Sweden buriedCause Sleep is the Cousin of DeathComment -
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I won this thread. Good nightComment -
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Sweden proves the lockdown made no difference. USA screwed itself only because Trump was president so the only chance was to hurt the economy.Comment -
now Sweden is slowly taking more and more freedoms away. I guess they finally understood they could steal power and crush small businesses AND implant citizens with mind control drugs.
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Wow. Looking back on this thread and seeing how the death numbers have exploded....it's head exploding. Over 500 thousand dead now in the US. I got my 1st of 2 vaccines. Hope everyone is getting theirs. GLComment
