Originally Posted by
HabuHunter
Australopithecus said: “The Swedish laissez-faire model has resulted in a higher per-capita death rate ...“
While it seems intuitively to be the case, that statement is not proven and shouldn’t be stated with such authority. It may be correct or it may not be.
Sweden’s death rate while higher than its immediate neighbours is still lower than the UK, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Italy... all of whom locked down. Some other countries that did NOT lock down such as South Korea, Taipei and others have really low death rates.
Correlation does not prove causation.
Kindly refrain from selectively quoting me. You clipped out the part where I wrote “Scandinavian neighbours”.
Its pointless to compare their death rate with countries run by populist clowns and populations intent on expressing their “freedumbs”
Denmark death rate 105/million pop
Norway death rate. 47/million
Finland death rate. 59/million
Sweden death rate 549/million
51/2 times higher than Denmark, 11 1/2 times higher than Norway.
sometimes post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a real thing.