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Originally Posted by O.city
We're a little different in terms of the size and such.
If you break us down similarly to countries as states and such, it looks similar. Look at New York, New Jersey etc.
They look identical to those other countries.
The places here that are spiking now are just going thru the same things those other countries did just at different times.
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My guess would be that formal rules can only go so far. A ton relies on people taking it seriously and social distancing on their own. Looking at Sweden's
mobility reports on Google, they're nearly identical to the U.S. for example, though they have less of a drop in retail than we did.
All that said, Sweden is still even worse than the U.S. in per-capita deaths (7th worst in the world), so until they show they can keep it down, I'm hesitant to say that it's a victory. There are plenty of countries in the world (including their neighbors) that have had minimal deaths for a while now. Hell, Sweden has had as many deaths in the past month as Norway has had since the beginning, and that's only looking at the period where Sweden seemingly "has things under control."