From Twitter, a chart of intensive care utilization by COVID-19 patients in Stockholm versus Hamburg:
Related:
- Analysis of Sweden versus UK COVID-19 outcomes (see chart of population-weighted density; the average Swede actually lives in a more densely populated environment than the average German)
- Countries ranked by COVID-19 death rate (Germany beats Sweden in the COVID Olympics, but looking at U.S. states we see that masked-and-shut Maskachusetts has a higher death rate than all but three countries on Planet Earth (first-to-mask Czech Republic is a little higher, for example))
- “Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment” (MedRxiv): “Case growth was not significantly different between mandate and non-mandate states at low or high transmission rates, and surges were equivocal. … Mask use did not predict Summer 2020 case growth for non-Northeast states or Fall-Winter 2020 growth for all continental states.”
“I worked for 15 years in the BMW engine production factory.”
“What did you learn about engines and cars?”
“I learned how to torque two bolts with a pre-set wrench, drop the crankshaft on the bearings, and hook up three rubber hoses.”