Posted on 04/21/2020 9:10:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
It would be the perfect time, to invest in infrastructure, plus working outdoors has been said to be safe. I can’t believe the congress can’t get their act together for the sake of the economy. In normal times, there would be a heavy political price for their intransigence, but half of our country has been brainwashed by the media and academia.
The countries you listed have large densely urban population centers. Plenty of fuel for the virus.
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So the response is that Sweden has fewer death/million than NY because it is less dense. All the more reason for the fear mongers to stop trying to shut-down Sweden (Virginia, rural Montana, etc.) to the same extent as NY.
Yep. NYC still with several times that in daily deaths—and a smaller population than Sweden.
We’d have to have 33 times the rate of Sweden to call it a draw - we aren’t close to that number despite their being a lot sparser in general population centers...if we had their death rates, we’d be heading for the million dead scenarios...and maybe even more if we just “acted normal”.
Now just how did you manage to come up with that big lie?
“NYC still with several times that in daily deaths—and a smaller population than Sweden.”
NYC has nearly twice the population of Sweden.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html
I think we are in partial agreement as long as folks practice common sense. However, dense urban areas should remain quarantined until either the numbers go down or vaccines become available.
Ummmm - maybe the “New Math is too complex for you...we have 33 times the population of Sweden...
Sweden’s population is just about 10 million.
NYC’s about 8.5 million. (Before people started to flee!)
Exactly. The vast majority of America would have been just fine using the Swedish approach or even less. Maybe put the big metro areas on lockdown but they should have been the exception.
Apples to Apples
city vs city
NYC vs Stockholm ~9 to 1.8 million
US state vs European state; i.e.
NY vs Sweden (2020)
19.7 to 10.2 million
Wasn’t my point (or your first attempted “correction” of my post).
OP had asked wasn’t the NYC daily death toll higher than all of Swedens. I simply confirmed that yes it was and that Sweden’s population is greater than NYC’s.
Others already early in the thread noted the per capita difference between Sweden and NYS.
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