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Originally Posted by O.A.F.K.1.1
So much fellating of Sweden on social media.
Yea they have high deaths but are in a better position for the second wave is the argument used to deflect the reality of their terrible numbers.
The thing is the second wave could kill magnitudes more than the first in all its neighbours and numerous other countries and they would have still done better in terms of deaths than Sweden in just the first wave.
What if anything is known about Swedish immunity levels?
From the playing around with numbers I've done in spreadsheets, it seems to me that unless they are at a very high level of immunity already, then they will also have a bigger second wave, because there is more of the virus around to make a comeback. In other words, if you want a small second wave, the best place to start from is one where hardly anyone has it, so it has more work to do multiplying itself back up.
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Originally Posted by golddog
In your sidebar, you mention May 8 being a holiday in Europe except Germany and UK, because it's VE (WW II Victory in Europe) day.
I can see why Germany might not want reminders of that, but why not UK?
Germany because they lost, UK because we hadn't won yet. There were still forces fighting the Japanese. Also Jersey and Guernsey were still occupied (they do commemorate the end of the war, but on 9th of May), along with British Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Borneo and bits of Burma.
The real reason though is that British public holidays don't normally commemorate specific historical events, they are just things like "Last Monday in August", which is convenient as a lot of them make 3 and 4-day weekends instead of falling midweek.
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Originally Posted by SiMor29
May 8th was a holiday here.
Yes this year, but this was in a previous year.