Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mummelmann]

Amnesia said:

Mummelmann said:

Italy has six times the population of Sweden, but the geographical size is only about 65% of Sweden, leading to much more densely populated regions. In addition, Italy is well known for its housing situation, multi-generation homes are the norm across large parts of the countryside, annulling any advantage one might get in rural areas compared to cities. Sweden has one of the highest rates of single-person households on the globe.

What ? density of what ?...

Bangladesh also has very few deaths per capita, despite being the most densely populated nation on earth. Japan probably has a few advantages in this pandemic. I'm guessing immense organizational skills, a homogenous and obedient population, and top-notch healthcare help a lot. Not to mention that it's an island, most islands that aren't called the UK seem to have done a bit better, for natural reasons.

If anything, Sweden has unusually high death rates per capita all things considered, but this is probably simply down to handling it poorly from the beginning. The point I've been making all along in this thread is that Sweden is comparable in death toll only to nations that handled the pandemic really poorly, have poorly organized societies, or is incredibly densely populated highly inter-connected with neighboring states.

In other words, several would-be mitigating factors on Sweden's side seem to have simply evaporated and I can only see that it is so due to the incredibly lackluster handling of the pandemic from the beginning.