Cooking the Books on Covid-19?

[Primo Carnera]

It is strange how America is and yet Sweden who has done things differently seems relatively under control. Sure you can blame restaurants and bars, but at the same time, the Swedes are not out trying to topple society during a national crisis either.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...ountry/sweden/

not sure I agree with this. Sweden didn’t lockdown and I’ve been watching their figures for about a month or more.
When I started looking , Sweden and Ireland’s figures were virtually identical. Since then , the figures have dropped to virtually none in Ireland, whereas in Sweden, the figures have been more or less the same all the time.
Furthermore, the info that is coming onto Worldometers from Sweden has become a little “Sketchy” of late. A lot of “N/A’s” in the last couple of weeks.
Basically , where the lockdown has been more strict, the figures are coming down pretty quickly.
Where there has been either no lockdown or it was a pretty “weak” lockdown, the figures are lingering (Sweden and even the U.K. to a point) or even INCREASING (Brazil, USA for example.)

[Gandalf]

It is strange how America is and yet Sweden who has done things differently seems relatively under control. Sure you can blame restaurants and bars, but at the same time, the Swedes are not out trying to topple society during a national crisis either.

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...ountry/sweden/

not sure I agree with this. Sweden didn’t lockdown and I’ve been watching their figures for about a month or more.
When I started looking , Sweden and Ireland’s figures were virtually identical. Since then , the figures have dropped to virtually none in Ireland, whereas in Sweden, the figures have been more or less the same all the time.
Furthermore, the info that is coming onto Worldometers from Sweden has become a little “Sketchy” of late. A lot of “N/A’s” in the last couple of weeks.
Basically , where the lockdown has been more strict, the figures are coming down pretty quickly.
Where there has been either no lockdown or it was a pretty “weak” lockdown, the figures are lingering (Sweden and even the U.K. to a point) or even INCREASING (Brazil, USA for example.)

Yes, the key word was relatively. Not ideal by any stretch of the imagination. Certainly not a Taiwan or anything like that. I just mean more as compared with the US where everybody seems to have had it. I find their numbers a bit fishy too. No idea why you put sick people in nursing homes etc. Funny goings on.