The thing we did right was immediately working on a vaccine.
Pretty much everything after that was a disaster.
We should not have shut down.
We should not have had mask requirements.
We should not have shut down schools.
We should not have sent out billions of dollars to people.
We should not have suspended rent payment.
90 percent of the deaths were people 50 and over. This wasn't a disease that affected the young and the healthy.
The response should have been very limited and very targeted. (older people and people with existing health conditions should have been given leeway in reporting to work etc..).
The Scandinavians are a lot healthier than most in the USA. Not nearly as many fat diabetics in those countries.
Also, there was a lot that was not known about covid early on. Some of what was done was right and some of it wasn’t. That was true for every pandemic previous to covid and will be true for every pandemic going forward.
We’re 3 years into this now and people are still bemoaning lockdowns & masks? Get a fvcking life! Something tells me you don’t have one or you wouldn’t be mired in the past, OP.
Lastly, as a previous poster noted, the reference from the OP checks out as…
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE
Yep, if it's a link you don't agree with, then it's a conspiracy. When your boy Biden says it, and was proven 1000% wrong, then you kneel to it. No doubt about it, you got the jab and now regret it.
Nope, I don’t regret being vaxxed and boosted. I had covid once and it was about a year post-vax. It was mild and I was back to my normal life in less than a week. I haven’t had it again after being boosted. I’m fine, healthy, and happy.
It’s funny how weak-minded dolts always fall back on politics when refuting someone that never took a political position.
Yep, if it's a link you don't agree with, then it's a conspiracy. When your boy Biden says it, and was proven 1000% wrong, then you kneel to it. No doubt about it, you got the jab and now regret it.
Nope, I don’t regret being vaxxed and boosted. I had covid once and it was about a year post-vax. It was mild and I was back to my normal life in less than a week. I haven’t had it again after being boosted. I’m fine, healthy, and happy.
It’s funny how weak-minded dolts always fall back on politics when refuting someone that never took a political position.
Will you continue with the boosters every six months?
Update: The methodology used in this post to calculate ‘cumulative excess mortality’ over a year takes the weekly excess percentage, divides by 52 and then plots the sum of these percentages up to the date.
The guy is comparing 'average percent above average mortality' (why?) and his analysis means the timings of the deaths is affecting the data. If a country experienced a huge surge in deaths during the pandemic it would be averaged out and be overtaken by nations that had a lower but more consistent death rate.
Also there's no such thing as "cumulative excess mortality" as the excess mortality is based on a comparing two points in time.
If you look at numbers of deaths in the 2 years before the pandemic and the 2 years after the pandemic (i.e. the most obvious way to do the calculation) then Sweden has 15% more deaths than it would expect to record, about twice as many as its neighbors Denmark and Norway experienced.
The thing we did right was immediately working on a vaccine.
Pretty much everything after that was a disaster.
We should not have shut down.
We should not have had mask requirements.
We should not have shut down schools.
We should not have sent out billions of dollars to people.
We should not have suspended rent payment.
90 percent of the deaths were people 50 and over. This wasn't a disease that affected the young and the healthy.
The response should have been very limited and very targeted. (older people and people with existing health conditions should have been given leeway in reporting to work etc..).
The rest of us should have gone on with our life.
The vaccine was not made for Covid.
Covid was made for the vaccine. And lockdowns. And mandates. Vax passports too
Update: The methodology used in this post to calculate ‘cumulative excess mortality’ over a year takes the weekly excess percentage, divides by 52 and then plots the sum of these percentages up to the date.
The guy is comparing 'average percent above average mortality' (why?) and his analysis means the timings of the deaths is affecting the data. If a country experienced a huge surge in deaths during the pandemic it would be averaged out and be overtaken by nations that had a lower but more consistent death rate.
Also there's no such thing as "cumulative excess mortality" as the excess mortality is based on a comparing two points in time.
If you look at numbers of deaths in the 2 years before the pandemic and the 2 years after the pandemic (i.e. the most obvious way to do the calculation) then Sweden has 15% more deaths than it would expect to record, about twice as many as its neighbors Denmark and Norway experienced.
If every country compared to Sweden had pursued China style zero covid policies, the comparison of outcomes would be relevant (although as mentioned above the methodology is totally cooked to create the impression of an advantage for Sweden by using bogus "cumulative excess mortality" stats). But much of the US gave up on restrictions very early on. In TX, we were done with lockdowns by late summer of 2020 with the governor banning municipalities from imposing restrictions and schools were open for 2020-21. TX got smashed during the Delta and Omicron waves as did similarly situated southern states like MS, WV, AR, AL & TN. If Sweden's approach was superior, then why didn't it work in the US? Mass infection just resulted in mass death and the near collapse of the health care system.
I haven't had the chance to look at the details of the analysis presented, but "The Economist" magazine has been tracking excess and covid deaths by country over the course of the pandemic.
Using their publicly accessible data I get a different answer, notably that Sweden did worse than Norway and Denmark in both excess and covid death rates.
Yes, I went to statista and looked at norway and sweden trom 2011-2021. Norway obviously did better than Sweden in 2020 and 2021. 2022 cant be calculated yet. I will give exact details later, But Sweden in 2020 (its worst year) exceeded the next worst year by 9039 deaths. Norway in 2021 (its worst year) exceeded the next worst year by 9 deaths.
One should be very skeptical of information coming from the daily skeptic
If every country compared to Sweden had pursued China style zero covid policies, the comparison of outcomes would be relevant (although as mentioned above the methodology is totally cooked to create the impression of an advantage for Sweden by using bogus "cumulative excess mortality" stats). But much of the US gave up on restrictions very early on. In TX, we were done with lockdowns by late summer of 2020 with the governor banning municipalities from imposing restrictions and schools were open for 2020-21. TX got smashed during the Delta and Omicron waves as did similarly situated southern states like MS, WV, AR, AL & TN. If Sweden's approach was superior, then why didn't it work in the US? Mass infection just resulted in mass death and the near collapse of the health care system.