I struggle with how a statement of fact, 5.6% case fatality rate, is somehow misleading. It is binary - 100% true, 0% false.
That is not meant as a personal attack, as I noticed the same issue on the reported COVID cases. Anyone with basic medical knowledge understands they are individually reported cases, but not necessarily always separate individuals. The more ignorant learn this and some how interpret their ignorance as an attempt to fool them. (Also that is the GRU’s message FWIW
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/upl...m_08-04-20.pdf)
No intent to deceive in the Swedish Case Fatality Rate but there is a certain tendency for people to minimize when they don’t like the fact or lack the cognitive process to interpret the information.
Same for a dead Swede or dead American. If they are dead, does it matter how old they were? They are cold on a slab. The bare fact does undercut the ethical attractiveness of the Swedish model of limited mitigation, which conservatively is 10x worse than the US fatality performance (and likely closer to 20x worse when time adjusted). Some folks don’t concern themselves with such moral or ethical issues; my opinion is that such public policy consideration is appropriate relative large recreational events such as Sturgis motorcycle rally. YMMV.
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