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Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
I think the Swedish style of pandemic mismanagement is one that Canada deserves to avoid like the plague.
Swedish researchers condemned their government’s reaction to the pandemic in a March 2022 Nature article. Findings include:
• “The clinical method has been followed through the main personalities of the government of the day – or the guilty politicians . . . which has led to arbitrary political decisions. “
• “[People] have been kept in the dark about fundamental facts such as airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, that other asymptomatic people can be contagious and that both the user and others are masked. “
“Many other older people were given oxygen morphine despite the materials available, ending their lives. “
“. . . [authorities] have at least speculated about using young people to gain herd immunity, while publicly claiming that young people play a negligible role in transmission and get sick.
Swedes continue to die of COVID. Our global knowledge shows that the new daily deaths recorded from COVID-19 in Sweden, as well as millions of others, are higher than those in Canada in almost each and every wave, adding this summer.
Canada does not adopt public fitness systems that actively increase deaths in clinically vulnerable populations and increase the threat of post-COVID effects on the younger workforce (one in five adults over the age of 18, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Morbidity and mortality weekly report of May 27).
I will mask myself to protect others, ventilate the rooms I’m in, and keep my vaccinations. It would also make a deadly transfer if it were epidemiologically mandatory to break the chain of transmission of a new pathogen.
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
He would possibly be “one of the most naïve readers” discussed in the commentary, but I think it’s fair to put the actual COVID numbers next to some of his statements.
“Virtually no one is dying of COVID in Sweden. For them, COVID is over. Two weeks ago, Sweden had 74 deaths and 5943 cases. By comparison, Canada recorded 28 deaths and 4896 cases with 4 times the population.
“All-cause mortality in Sweden has not increased at all in the last two and a half years. “In 2019, Sweden had 88,766 deaths. In 2020, those increased to 98,124 and in 2021 to 91,958. This backlog of deaths is very much in line with their COVID deaths.
Overall, Sweden reported 1,889 COVID deaths consistent with one million people. Canada reported 1,134 deaths consistent with one million inhabitants. This is that Sweden’s COVID strategy has resulted in 7,550 more Swedish deaths than in Canada.
The observation downplayed the significance of those deaths because they were “mainly frail and elderly people suffering from severe comorbid diseases. “
Frankly, I am pleased that Canadians consider all lives to be valuable and deserve to be saved. I think Sweden can get a little bit of information about the humanity of Canada.
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
Sweden’s lax reaction to the pandemic has been driven through an illusory search for herd immunity. The country did not stop doing so, but ended up having more cases than neighboring Finland.
While insisting that COVID is over for Sweden, the World Health Organization has reported 1144 new cases in the past 24 hours. Are you “understanding well?”
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
The figures from statista. com imply that if we had gone sweden’s way, we could have expected another 28,500 deaths from other Canadians.
On the economic front, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s June Canada Economic Outlook forecasts an expansion of 3. 8% in 2022 and 2. 6% in 2023.
The same snapshot for Sweden foresees an expansion of 2. 2% in 2022 and 1% in 2023.
These facts contradict the conclusions reached by the author.
It is even more disturbing to read that all those additional early deaths in Sweden involved only the elderly and frail and those suffering from comorbidities.
Is it the conclusion that all other countries do not have similar populations or that additional deaths among those populations are less tragic?
From this perspective, it turns out that it goes too far, or even wrong, in its very broad conclusion, while ignoring the very important knowledge reflecting COVID death rates and existing economic situations to succeed in this conclusion.
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
The observation claims that Sweden has understood COVID well, while the rest of the world has been wrong.
Expert resources disagree. A recent paper in Nature, the world’s first clinical journal, “Assessing Scientific Advice During the COVID Pandemic in Sweden,” examines Sweden’s functionality and concludes that it has done poorly.
The observation noted that Sweden has done more than Argentina; however, Sweden is a first-world country with a first-class healthcare system. Of course, it will do more than Argentina.
How has it fared compared to its Scandinavian neighbors, Denmark and Norway, which have taken stricter precautions in the face of COVID deaths?These are the figures as of April 22:
Sweden: 1,839 deaths consistent with millions
Norway: 525 deaths consistent with millions
Denmark: 1,042 deaths consistent with millions
Sweden did partly as well as Denmark and more than 3 times worse than Norway. Around 18,000 Swedes died. If Sweden had followed the same precautions as Norway, 12,000 of those Swedes would still be alive.
What about Canada? The death rate in Canada is 1,019 deaths equivalent to millions, almost the same as in Denmark and almost twice that of Sweden.
Why is Canada following the example of a country with a much worse track record than ours?
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
I looked at statistics from the World Health Organization showing that Sweden had a slow backlog of cases and deaths from March 2020 to April 2022, and then a limit until this week.
Although the government took a more or less passive approach, the total population had a vaccination rate of 216. 63 consistent with a population of one hundred, which is higher than that of Canada or the United States.
They also have a smaller, more dispersed population and limited cultural diversity and only about 50% of Swedish citizens.
The right to housing is through the charter and by law, there is a housing subsidy for low-income tenants and other young people between the ages of 18 and 28 get an additional subsidy.
Sweden has a universal health care formula that includes dental care until age 23, when they enroll in the normal dental subsidy formula. social agreements with its employees.
Four weeks of vacation are required, unemployment insurance is set at 80% of the normal salary, and pension benefits constitute almost one hundred percent of previous income. Family care and early formative years and parental leave are generous.
Educational supports, adding reduced prices for medical school and other vocational training, also help shape a society that is likely supporting certain cultural norms where private selection and work are possible.
There are many reasons why this style would be difficult to move to North America, but one of the main ones would be the source of Sweden’s income tax rate, which exceeded 50% over the past 50 years.
We can hardly agree on a new fire station or a building on the minimum wage, let alone on such a broad formula of circle of relatives and individual support.
Re: “We may be informed from Sweden, which has understood COVID well,” commentary, July 30.
The observation makes dubious claims about the effectiveness of Sweden’s reaction to COVID-19.
Comparing Canada to Sweden, we have a population of around 37 million with just under 43,000 COVID deaths, while the Swedish population exceeds 10 million and has suffered more than 19,000 deaths.
This means that Canada had a mortality rate consistent with the capita more than 60% lower. If Canadians had died at the Swedish rate, we would have lost another 28,000 Canadian lives.
It should also be noted that as the death toll in Sweden increased, Sweden abandoned the “do nothing” technique and limited the duration of meetings, limited opening hours, followed mask rules, etc.
Recommending that the Swedish technique be higher would be difficult to convince the 28,000 Canadians who would have died if we had followed Sweden’s example.
I almost broke the law on July 30 when I was about to overtake a very slow vehicle on Highway 14. I would have done it if a car hadn’t approached.
Welcome to the roads of Sooke in the summer, when ignorant, lost or stupid tourists make life stressful for residents. It wasn’t the first time such a vehicle had aroused my anger.
In this case, the half-ton truck, registered outside the province, with two kayaks, was circulating at 40 km / h in an area of 60 km / h, slowing down to 30 km / h. I perceive what it is like to be a tourist and do not know the roads, but come on. There were at least three places where the driver could have stopped safely so that the driver and the speed limit can continue.
The moment I turned my way, there were about 8 cars in the infuriating parade.
It’s time for the police to fine cars that don’t meet the speed limit. It’s time for the right government agencies to come up with symptoms that signal slow drivers to stop. It’s time for drivers to be careful and walk away when they get in the way of traffic. .
I why road rage and risky driving occur.
The Cook Street roundabout is too small to serve properly. Most drivers heading north or south in Cook seem to assume they have the right of way, regardless of the traffic waiting to enter from Southgate and giant trucks, buses or chimney trucks can’t get around. the roundabout without the concrete in the cinput.
The pedestrian crossing at the northern end of the roundabout is misplaced and dangerous. It is difficult to control pedestrians when analyzing traffic flows in and around the roundabout.
I recently informed Victoria Bylaw Services that, contrary to the BC Supreme Court of Victoria Council resolution and direction, camping again taking up positions at Beacon Hill Park and Irving Park in James Bay.
They told me they were too busy to fix the problem. When did discretionary enforcement begin in Victoria?
Subject: “An apology from the Pope is needed,” says the head of Nuu-chah-nulth, July 30.
Indigenous peoples have asked Pope Francis to come to Canada and take their young people away from their families, where many have been physically and sexually abused.
It is the Pope who did it. But now Chief Nuu-chah-nulth says it’s not enough and she’s not so interested in an apology.
I perceive the need to annul the doctrine of discovery, but let us give credit to those who correspond. The elderly pope made a great recognition because he said he would, even if he was injured and is probably about to retire.
Now is the time for reconciliation.
It will require the union of other Aboriginal people and all Canadians for this to work.
In this opinion section, I have read a letter from the anti-oil crowd that addresses either of those two facts.
First, gasoline is about a hundred times more energy-dense than a lithium-ion battery. A Hummer battery weighs over 2900 pounds! Almost the weight of a Honda Civic.
In addition, gasoline, diesel and propane are transportable.
A gallon of any can be transported to this camp/remote job site; run the generator, air compressor, medical equipment, tools, communications, HVAC, and oh yes, all the rechargeable batteries that force some of the above.
Guess what: locomotives use 3,000-horsepower diesel (we don’t have a “metric” ulé) to force the turbines that move the exercise a kilometer long.
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