{"id":32593,"date":"2021-05-30T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=32593"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:38:37","slug":"intelligent-germans-versus-swedish-covidiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/30\/intelligent-germans-versus-swedish-covidiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent #Science-following Germans versus Swedish Covidiots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankfurtZack\/status\/1396477916909867014\">Twitter<\/a>, a chart of intensive care utilization by COVID-19 patients in Stockholm versus Hamburg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-1520x849.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32594\" width=\"667\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-1520x849.png 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-1536x858.png 1536w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-30-2048x1144.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/analysis-of-sweden-versus-uk-covid-19-outcomes\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"32536\">Analysis of Sweden versus UK COVID-19 outcomes<\/a> (see chart of population-weighted density; the average Swede actually lives in a more densely populated environment than the average German)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1104709\/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants\/\">Countries ranked by COVID-19 death rate<\/a> (Germany beats Sweden in the COVID Olympics, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1109011\/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state\/\">looking at U.S. states<\/a> we see that masked-and-shut Maskachusetts has a higher death rate than all but three countries on Planet Earth (<a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/18\/the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-czech-republics-mask-law\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"31603\">first-to-mask Czech Republic<\/a> is a little higher, for example))<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.05.18.21257385v1.full.pdf\">&#8220;Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment&#8221;<\/a> (MedRxiv): &#8220;Case growth was not significantly different between mandate and non-mandate states at low or high transmission rates, and surges were equivocal. &#8230; Mask use did not predict Summer 2020 case growth for non-Northeast states or Fall-Winter 2020 growth for all continental states.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronapanic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Intelligent #Science-following Germans versus Swedish Covidiots - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/30\/intelligent-germans-versus-swedish-covidiots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Intelligent #Science-following Germans versus Swedish Covidiots - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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; 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