Tuesday 26 January 2021

COVID ~ Sweden per capita is still better than in the UK


They should be with 1/12th of our population density. If a country could have pulled off no lockdowns Sweden should have been able to. However, they are currently doing U-Turns and now have the laws to allow a lockdown, if needed. They brought in face masks on public transport about 2 weeks ago, not that I totally agree with face masks, as they are not used correctly.

Sweden's population is 14% of ours

Population density is 8% of ours

UK 724/mi2

Swe 58/mi2

Their death rate is 11% of ours which is kind of on a par with us in comparison to the population.

However with their population density being so much lower and if not locking down was actually working that figure should be much lower.

Difficult to compare countries that are so far apart on population density.

One of the big differences is the swedes are more compliant to following rules, so whilst no lockdown was imposed, social distancing was advised and in the main followed ...try that here in the UK 😀 😀

The closest country that is similar to the UK in population and population density is Vietnam total cases 1,549 total deaths 35 (if you believe the figures)

Whilst Vietnam didn't lock down totally. Months before the rest of the world acted, it brought in travel restrictions, closed the border with China, schools were closed for 6 months, anyone entering the country quarantine for 14 days, 40% of quarantined cases had the virus but were asymptomatic carriers. Any towns with Positive cases were locked down with no one allowed in or out until two weeks had passed with no confirmed cases. 

We shall see how Sweden fairs in the next month but with their population density and the broadly compliant population they should be able to pull it off. But not comparable to the UK. 🙂
























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