Author Topic: Could Covid be Offering a Restart for Democracies?  (Read 1657 times)

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Re: Could Covid be Offering a Restart for Democracies?
« Reply #30 on: December 18, 2020, 10:14:42 am »
Sweden is hitting new highs in infections. The PM says their approach was a mistake. Even their King who remains non political just came out and said they had failed. Their economy shrank more than the other Scandinavian countries in the second quarter. Countries that had a small fraction of Sweden’s Covid deaths.
But it wasn’t a mistake.  Shutting down in the spring or summer wouldn’t have prevented the fall surge.  Many counties are seeing new highs.  Germany has new daily covid death highs.  You can’t compare Sweden to other Scandinavian counties.  They have twice the population and a much larger economy.  Regardless, what I said is true.  They didn’t see the same kind of economic damage as the United States because they didn’t shut down their economy.  That was my point.