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September 27th, 2021 at 11:41:59 AM permalink
JCW09
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Quote: rxwine
Just following a story on Sweden. Sweden had stayed open compared to Denmark and Norway. Kept schools open. Let people decide what to do.

deaths per 100k

Sweden 148
Denmark 50
Norway 24

GDP annual 2020 (source world bank) all went down but,

Sweden -2.8
Denmark --2.7
Norway -.0.8

Where was the economy in Sweden from staying open?

Copied those chart numbers from TV, and couldn't see source of the first one.

Kinda inconvenient that the real 2020 GDP numbers are:

Sweden -1.4%
Denmark -3.3%
Norway -4.5%

Source Statista.com
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September 27th, 2021 at 11:56:45 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: JCW09
Kinda inconvenient that the real 2020 GDP numbers are:

Sweden -1.4%
Denmark -3.3%
Norway -4.5%

Source Statista.com


All I know is it was was supposedly sourced from the World Bank, which is considered highly reliable.
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September 27th, 2021 at 12:45:42 PM permalink
rxwine
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I thought this chart was from the World Bank site at first,

But it's not. but I did find the kind of chart I was was looking for anyway. Not the GDP, but percent of change from year to year.

It's the chart labeled "Real GDP Percent of Change" The three numbers represent years 2018, 2019, and 2020

Sweden 2.0, 1.3,- 4.7
Denmark 2.4, 2.4, -4.5
Norway 1.3, 1.2, -2.8

https://knoema.com/nwnfkne/world-gdp-ranking-2020-gdp-by-country-data-and-charts
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September 27th, 2021 at 1:47:38 PM permalink
JCW09
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And from your site now, here are the GDP's for 2019 & 2020 listed in Current Prices ($Billions):

Denmark: $347.0/$339.6/ -2.1%
Norway: $403.3/$366.4/ -9.1%
Sweden: $530.9/$529.1/ -0.3%

So now please argue that the inflation formula built into real GDP is super important when looking at two successive years.
It's not!
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September 27th, 2021 at 4:22:49 PM permalink
Evenbob
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The Beijing Joe Crime Family Administration just let us know how serious they are about vaccinations. In the last 5 days they took the entire totally unvaccinated 12000 people from under the bridge in Texas put them on Planes Trains and Automobiles and shipped them all over United States to mingle with the general population. What a bunch of laughable hypocrites they are, nothing they say can be believed. And you wonder why me and AZ don't get vaccinated. How much of a real threat are non-vaccinated people to the general population if the government can do something like this.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
September 27th, 2021 at 4:31:18 PM permalink
ams288
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Quote: Evenbob
And you wonder why me and AZ don't get vaccinated.


Because you want to catch Covid from some of these migrants?

Those of us who have our shots have nothing to worry about.
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September 27th, 2021 at 7:48:21 PM permalink
terapined
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WTF were you thinking

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September 28th, 2021 at 11:27:22 AM permalink
Evenbob
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The first big study of masks is in from Bangladesh. A United States funded study the lasted 5 months found that cloth masks are worthless. In the control groups the people who wore surgical masks had 11% fewer cases of covid then the people who wore no masks at all. It was a big study involving over 300,000 people. So doctor Frankenstein Fuji was right when he said right at the beginning that masks don't really work. 11% is not a significant number. 50 or 60% would be significant, 11% is basically a little better than nothing. Social distancing, not being close to someone who's infected, works the best.
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September 28th, 2021 at 11:37:11 AM permalink
ams288
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Quote: Evenbob
doctor Frankenstein Fuji


The comedic wit. Absolutely brilliant. How did you miss your calling as a stand up comic?!
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September 28th, 2021 at 5:15:04 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: Evenbob
The first big study of masks is in from Bangladesh. A United States funded study the lasted 5 months found that cloth masks are worthless. In the control groups the people who wore surgical masks had 11% fewer cases of covid then the people who wore no masks at all. It was a big study involving over 300,000 people. So doctor Frankenstein Fuji was right when he said right at the beginning that masks don't really work. 11% is not a significant number. 50 or 60% would be significant, 11% is basically a little better than nothing. Social distancing, not being close to someone who's infected, works the best.


Masks do prevent a lot of the spread covid. It's tough for much of the virus to get through mask even if you're talking or coughing. But they lied to us when they said masks will prevent you from getting covid because if they told us the truth almost nobody would wear masks because they don't believe they have the disease. So looking at it that way masks were probably effective in keeping the spread of it down. That's the reason everybody wears a mask during surgery, not to protect themselves they wear it to protect the patient.
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.