"That aside, once again His Lordship has failed to post a scintilla of science.
Not one quotation from a scientific study.
Not one link to a scientific study."-johnfibs
Since johnforbes apparently can't read previous posts on this thread, I will repost both the quotations from the scientific studies and the links to the scientific studies, which is much, much more than a "scintilla of science" as Dishonestjohn knows perfectly well but he is lying about it anyway.
Read it and weep, dumbfuck, and then post some quotations from a scientific study and a link to a scientific study to support your lies:
"Background: Norway and Sweden are similar countries in terms of socioeconomics and health care. Norway implemented extensive COVID-19 measures, such as school closures and lockdowns, whereas Sweden did not. Aims: To compare mortality in Norway and Sweden, two similar countries with very different mitigation measures against COVID-19. Methods: Using real-world data from national registries, we compared all-cause and COVID-19-related mortality rates with 95% confidence intervals (CI) per 100,000 person-weeks and mortality rate ratios (MRR) comparing the five preceding years (2015–2019) with the pandemic year (2020) in Norway and Sweden."
"On 12 March 2020, the Norwegian government introduced extraordinary measures against the pandemic [11]. Emergency laws required the closure of all day-care centres, schools, universities and other academic institutions, as well as gyms, hair salons, restaurants and movie theatres. Domestic and international travel restrictions were introduced and all sport and cultural events, as well as all organised sports, were cancelled [11]. The Norwegian government urged the population to stay at home if possible and contact with health care services was encouraged only if absolutely necessary. Most appointments for patients with chronic diseases were cancelled or replaced with telephone or video consultations [12].
In Sweden, measures were considerably less strict during the first wave of the pandemic. On 27 March 2021, the Swedish government banned public gatherings and events with >50 people [13]. The Public Health Agency recommended high schools and universities to remain open, but to teach online if possible, and advised that non-essential travel should be avoided [14]. People with respiratory symptoms should stay at home and some elective surgery was postponed [15], but otherwise the health care service in Sweden operated as before. Restaurants and bars, gyms, hair salons and movie theatres stayed open, and sports and cultural events continued during the pandemic [16]."
"At the end of 2020, Norway reported few COVID-19-associated deaths and little severe disease. By contrast, Sweden reported more COVID-19-associated deaths and disease. The substantially different national strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the two countries and the similarity of the countries with regard to confounding variables may provide a natural experiment enabling difference-in-difference analyses [17] to explore the possible benefits and harms associated with the pandemic and its measures. Previous studies were conducted early in the course of the pandemic before complete data for 2020 became available, or have not directly compared countries, states or regions with similar socioeconomics, infrastructure, ethnicity or health care systems [18–20]."
"COVID-19 associated mortality
From 11 March 2020 to 22 January 2021, a total of 60,896 people tested positive for COVID-19 and 544 COVID-19 cause-specific deaths were recorded in Norway compared with 547,166 COVID-19 positive people and 11,005 COVID-19 cause-specific deaths in Sweden."
"The COVID-19 cause-specific mortality rate during the first wave of the pandemic was 0.3 per 100,000 person-weeks (95% CI 0.1–0.4) in Norway and 2.9 per 100,000 person-weeks (95% CI 1.9–3.9) in Sweden"-NIH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807990/
So we see the mortality rate in Sweden was more than NINE TIMES the mortality rate in Norway, which makes johnforbes a liar. And this is just one of the comparison studies that johnforbes claims he is perfectly aware of since he claims to have followed the science. Thus he must know of this study, and so is lying.
The fact is, Sweden had the highest COVID mortality rate of ALL Scandinavian countries. johnforbes knows this but he lied about it anyway.
ALSO:
"Looser COVID-19 health policies in Sweden during the pandemic did not translate into better short-term economic performance, according to a study in the Journal of Global Health.
Early in the pandemic, other Nordic countries implemented stricter measures such as lockdowns and took more protective actions to try to limit COVID-19.
The study examined epidemiological, health system utilization, health policy, and economic data from the 5 countries in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) for January 2020 through January 3, 2021. Minimal socioeconomic, cultural, and geographical differences between the countries allow for comparative analysis.
Researchers reported Sweden had the largest COVID-19 incidence and mortality, and the highest average weekly percent change for both indicators; Denmark had the highest number of COVID-19 tests per capita; and Norway had a significant increase in unemployment while the percentage change in real gross domestic product (GDP) was insignificant for all countries.
“Although Sweden had chosen looser COVID-19 health policies to benefit its economy, there is no evidence that this had any short-term economic benefits, while costing disproportionate disease transmission and mortality numbers compared to neighboring countries,” the authors wrote."-JAMA Network
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/f ... le/2796367
This is further scientific evidence that johnfibs is lying to us. And there are many more studies showing he lied. But unlike me, johnny has no scientific evidence whatsoever to contribute to a scientific discussion. He never does. His own posts prove that he's got nothin' as always. He simply made it up.
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