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I think maybe you meant this as a reply on a post? its a dangling comment right now.
I agree, just saying I think you meant to comment on the post itself, but you didnt.
But yea the obvious fact he couldnt even be bothered to read a post before he disagreed with it and acted like a toddler int hrows of a tantrum with all the maturity he used in disagreeing with it.. Well yea, that alone tells me his opinion should not, and probably rarely does, hold any weight with anyone.
* 0.00671% infected (0.988x the USA)
* 16x increase since out of lockdown".
Yes, I disagree with you and it's not the first time. You always spit out numbers and things as if you know better than anyone else and I don't see all of this maturity in your replies either.
The remark about sweden I made was as follows: "Sweden is a bit different only because they actually followed the pattern of the a bit USA and didnt have strict across the board lockdowns"
In this toot:
https://qoto.org/@freemo/104971517469152295
"You always spit out numbers and things as if you know better than anyone else" -- LOL, seriously, your going to refer to the fact that I provide actual numbers to back up my claim, and pull those numbers from official sources, me me acting like I know better than everyone else? Wow.
As for you not seeing my maturity, I am not surprised. It is usually the person resorting to name calling and tantrums who is going to have a hard time seeing the maturity in others. But just so we are clear, I will treat people with respect right up until the point they resort to personal attacks and no longer deserve that respect. I have no problem degrading you AFTER you jumped in with the name calling and disrespect. But prior to that point I have treated everyone in this conversation respectfully. In fact you are the only one who has behaved in a way that has lost the right to such respect, though an apology would get that respect back.
There is no selection bias here, the numbers arent different when you take the EU average. Also any bias on my part was an attempt to pick the countries that faired the best from covid not the worst. As you see in the toot I linked the only reason I included sweden at all is because someone claimed they faired better than most EQ countries. Likewise I picked Germany for the list because it has been consistently stated as one of the best EU countries in terms of covid response.
So while selecting countries at random may not be the best way to sample in the scientific sense, you the bias is in the other direction. The real numbers put europe even worse off than the countries I selected.
The only calculating I really had to do was in picking a day for the end of lockdown for each country.. other than that its just a matter of dividing the cases on those two days from official data, so not much calculating need be done, though I do agree I had to take that step. You are most welcome to try to repeat my work and do the same if you'd like and we can compare notes if you think the numbers arent accurate. It would certainly be far more productive than your original comment was.
Ok, that I didn't read that toot (I replied to another one!). Fair enough. Still those numbers are not official data. Maybe you computed them from official data. So you have to show me that those are correct and that they are based on solid data. As I was trying to say earlier, your choice of countries and time spans suffers from selection bias.
About the maturity thing... no comment.