I’ve seen a bunch of TV news reports from Australia that are ten times as critical of China as anything in the US.
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I’ve seen a bunch of TV news reports from Australia that are ten times as critical of China as anything in the US.
But can you avoid getting sick from it for the next 18 months (approximate time when the vaccine will be available)?
The whole rationale behind the quarantine was to flatten the curve, in order to avoid deaths from lack of medical care due to an overwhelmed healthcare system; not avoid infection for two years (unreasonable for most people).
From the NYC page: COVID-19: Data - NYC Health
Till date per 1000 people overall, 5 people who are under 64 years, have been hospitalized. Some of these 5 would have not been in good health.
And this is in New York which is a densely packed city. 5 out of 1000.
Anyone know what the ventilator situation is? Is the US producing them now? When will the new supply be available?
You can't assume that Norway is flattening the curve and simultaneously assume that they are both at the same stage of the spread, so comparing the plots is wrong.
This does not look like serious trouble: COVID-19
I think it's only fair to compare a country against itself i.e. the performance of it's health measures against the last 5 years.
Lets say Sweden continues with it's current measures to tackle the virus until the end of the year. Out of curiosity, in your opinion what do you expect the total number of yearly deaths to be for 2020? Here's the last five year total number of death numbers in Sweden for you (Unfortunately I cannot locate the total number of deaths from the start of this year until today. If you can please share it with us)
2019 - 88,766
2018 - 92,185
2017 - 91,972
2916 - 90,982
2015 - 90,907
Given the source take this with a grain of salt: The Epoch Times and Falun Going have an axe to grind on communist china. :)
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I’m honestly not sure how to respond to this. They are the same, and I’m not sure if you realize that or not.
That is a mostly incorrect oversimplification. My daughter learned about that too for a book report. I was actually kind of surprised they framed it as a states’ rights issue at her age and in NJ.
First normalize for population.
Then should look at population densities...and not for the entire country.
Norway is only ~5 million people. Sweden is ~10M.
Top Cities is Norway:
1 - Oslo; 500K M people; density at 3500/sq/mi.
2 - Berg; 200K people
3- Trondhan 147K people
Sweden
1 - Stockholm 1.5M; 13,000 people /sq.mi.
2 - Gothenberg 600K
3 - Malmo 300K
(New York CITY has 8.3 M ppl. on 302 sq.mi. = 27,810 density for sake of comparison)
THEN look at age demographics.
We know the Covid19-flu is the hardest on old people ...infections and/or deaths.
Norway has less "old people" at 7.5% of its population being at age 75 y.o. or older than Sweden at 9.2%.
Couple that %stat with the total population number and you get a wider margin.
(Italy is like 11.6% / South Korea is 6.8% ...once again, for comparison)
Normalize all that data above with your "total numbers of deaths" in the Y-axis on that Norway vs Sweden chart then get back to us.
So, what's the reasoning for the quarantine? Why do they want to keep us inside? Are they transporting aliens? Pumping chemicals into the air? Trying to stop my linear progression?
Yesterday they blasted all the lightning/tornado alarms in my area and cops with loudspeakers were telling everyone that they had to stay indoors for the rest of the day because there would be 45mph winds. The fastest the wind got was 15mph. Bizarre.