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Why would the current death rate be a better metric than overall deaths?


Because Sweden is done with the virus. Their countries death count is still rising. Sweden front-loaded their deaths everyone else is going to catch up.


When will China and Taiwan catch up? You're talking about potentially millions of deaths


The only way out is through. It's all just delaying otherwise.


I don't understand. Those countries were able to make it out without going "through" the massive death rates of countries like Sweden and the US. Do you think they are just delaying the inevitable? Will the whole world end up with a death rate as high as SWE?


There were no massive deaths in Sweden. Did you even look at wiki page?


I believe that Sweden currently has the 8th highest death rate in the whole world. Their 5,000 deaths look small because it's a small country. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...


> everyone else is going to catch up.

Or get a vaccine.




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