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Comment Re:Stockholm syndrome (Score 1) 583

Sweden has the worst economical projections of the Nordic countries

That is a matter of how you bend the statistics. Sweden has a very large export sector that is 99% dependent on what happens outside of Sweden and they are of course hard hit. Our tens of thousands of tiny "Mom and Pops" companies will most likely fare better that the equivalents in other European countries including the Nordics, without taking on as much new national debt in the process (excluding Norway - no country can compete with their oil fund). The effects on unemployment remains to be seen but the last prognosis I saw was that we will be slightly less affected than the other Nordics but we are all doing a lot better than the EU average. Same thing with GDP growth.

even the worst hit Stockholm area turned out to have antibodies in 7% of the population

7% of a sample that was tested in late April, and it takes 2-3 weeks after contracting the virus until the antibodies are measurable by that test. What the real numbers are today is anyone's guess.

Anyway, herd immunity was never a strategy, that was just one of many possible outcomes. The strategy was to keep the amount of cases low enough for hospitals to keep up, using constitution compatible and long term sustainable level of restrictions, then see what happens and make adjustments along the way as we learn more about the virus.

Comment Re:Sweden (Score 1) 583

I meant "discounting" the Stockholm region, not nursing homes. The rest of Sweden, the part that is not the Stockholm region is comparable to the other Nordic countries. If you take the southern half of Sweden excluding the Stockholm region you even get similar size and population density, but similar covid-19 impact despite having no enforced lock-down.

Comment Re:Sweden (Score 3, Informative) 583

The really bad performer in Sweden is nursing homes in the Stockholm area. The rest of Sweden, which have had equally lax restrictions, is comparable to the other Nordic countries in deaths per capita. Also, people in nursing homes die in such great numbers because the nursing homes are/were very understaffed and the staff couldn't get access to protective gear until just recently. They don't die because other people can go to the mall to buy a sweatshirt or take a walk in a park. Don't mix these things up.

Comment Re:WHO is a joke (Score 1) 467

If we don't count the deaths in care homes for the elderly, Sweden isn't doing much worse than the rest of the Nordics. That's the main thing that Sweden got wrong so far, not protecting the care homes well enough, and that was a mistake, not a strategy. Letting shops and restaurants stay open (as long as they adhere to some distancing restrictions) and not forcing people to stay at home has not been a big source of virus spreading.

Comment Re:Everything is gonna be fine (Score 1) 236

It's not going to disappear. It will spread and it will stay and some people will die of it every year, but everything is gonna be fine anyway.
People will soon get over the fear, which is causing far more damage than the virus, and eventually we will get vaccines.
Soon it will be like "sorry, I can't come to work, I've got Corona" and the boss will say "oh, get well and see you in a week!" and that's that.

Comment Re:Time will tell (Score 2, Informative) 70

Raising rates 10% a year means rates double every ten years.

I think you forgot your middle school maths. Raising 10% per year would make it almost 2.6 times the rate after 10 years. (1.1 ^ 10 = 2.59374...) For it to double after 10 years you only need to raise it about 7.2% per year (1.072 ^ 10 = 2.004231...)

Comment Re:Why is this even an issue? Licensed, not sold (Score 3, Informative) 126

The account is licensed; a rental. Nothing is being "sold".

That's not what Valve themselves are saying. I just went to Steam Store frontpage. I see a list of "Top Selling". I enter a random game. Here I see in large bold letters "Buy gamename". Yeah, there is probably something to that degree in the fine print, but in Europe you can't use deceptive language and then hide contradictary terms in the fine print.

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