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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sweden is the world’s mine canary:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/sweden-coronavirus-approach-is-very-different-from-the-rest-of-europe.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/sweden-coronavirus-approach-is-very-different-from-the-rest-of-europe.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They didn’t shut down the borders or their schools or much of anything.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here are their numbers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa">https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notice there are no political motives at play that I can see, no power grabs, no economic incentives at work, no celebrating death, of if so I can’t see why any of that would apply. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know what the heck is a sjukdomfall is, but by context I am guessing “per dag” means “by day” so a sjukdomsfall is perhaps a new case of C-19. Leave it to those ballsy Vikings to go ahead and run this experiment. Somebody had to do it, ja?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can’t find similar data for Finland and Norway, but that’s what we really need here: a direct comparison between those three guys. If Sweden is telling the truth, this is good news indeed. Perhaps we really don’t need to shut down our economy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>