Sweden and Michigan have the same population
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Can't trust case numbers because everyone isn't being tested regularly. Death rates are the only number you can trust. Also, the 2 countries could be in different innings of the ball game.
From what you are saying, I gather Sex is a good preventative for Corona. In Michigan cities Drugs, smoking, and drinking are the main way people deal with life. In Sweden it is chasing and enjoying blonde women.
We know smoking hurts with Corona, possibly the exercise of sex helps.
We know smoking hurts with Corona, possibly the exercise of sex helps.
Are death rates really trust worthy when doctors can claim anything as covid related?
You mean anyone who dies while testing positive?
Right now we've tested 1% of the population and Covid is our leading cause of death. It's not like all these people dying just happened to test positive, because it's impossible to get tested without being very very sick.
The idea that someone dies in a car accident and they are like, "well there's a insane shortage of tests but this dude is dead we better test him post mortem, yep he's positive." Is so absurd it could only be cooked up in the mind of a turbo chud who spend his younger years huffing chemicals.
Not a terrible comparison because they're close to the same climate and heritage, but i don't think Sweden has a city like Detroit or nearly the same level of African-American population. We still don't know if certain decendencies are more prone to this. It'll be a few months before we know.
I think African Americans are more prone because they typically live in dense areas.
Detroit isn't that dense. It is a city built for driving. Plus, its population has decreased dramatically over the last 30 years. Also there are many cities with high Africican-American populations without the same mortality rate.
I wasn't necessarily talking about density, more about poverty. They have a lot of unhealthy people. Hard to even compare it to other US cities
Detroit's issues are political related. Run by Democrats and completely destroyed business. Other cities see industry ups and downs.
In that case we should be seeing outbreaks in San Juan, Birmingham, Cleveland and St. Louis.
Totally fair point. I'm not staking a position on this. My first response was that its somewhat of a fair comparison but there are variables that are unaccounted for so it can't be taken at face value based on population alone. There obviously are people that are more susceptible to catching and dying from it, we just don't know who or why yet.
Nice try but incorrect. Detroit's issues are due to white and black flight. White flight (and money) left after the 1967 riots to the suburbs which are now quite wealthy. Wealthy and middle class blacks returned to the south (Atlanta) in a reverse of the Great Migration of the early 1900s when they left the south to work in automobile factories. Basically anybody that could afford to leave Detroit, left. The net effect is that you are left with a poorer, older population, of course they are going to vote for politicians that promise them stuff. The Great Recession then added to their problems. They are trying to fix things by attracting people to move back from the suburbs into the city with Casinos, Stadiums, cool lofts, etc and reclaiming the land in order to reduce the city's footprint after everyone left.
