Hi
@chad kincham
Just for laughs, here's the down low on Sweden's Covid results.
Sweden's population is just over 10m people. The U.S. population is just over 330m people. The majority of Swedish towns and villages are nowhere as heavily populated as most of the towns, villages and cities of the U.S. That does have some effect on the transmissibility of the virus, but...
As of the current counts, Sweden has lost 14,699 citizens to the virus. Now if we multiply that by 33, which would bring it up to the population of the U.S. at 330m, then the adjusted 'rate' of Sweden's death in comparison to equalized population would be 485,067 deaths. The U.S., according to the latest data has some 652,000 deaths.
So, this idea that Sweden has been successful at beating Covid without the precautions that have been used in the U.S., especially when you account for the density of the population centers, really doesn't hold a lot of water. Maybe a thimble full. And, Sweden's death toll was much higher than it's neighbor countries with similar demographics.
I believe that when one measures the population density differences between the U.S. and Sweden, we don't find that Sweden faired any better in its death losses than the U.S. Consider that Sweden is about the same size as California geographically. In that same amount of space, California has 39m people. So, surely one can understand that there's a lot of open spacing in Sweden that the U.S. doesn't have the luxury of.
God bless,
Ted