I am not sure if you did look to the statistics which I have provided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#Excess_mortality
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#Excess_mortality>
The point is not if there has been more all-cause death in Sweden this
year compared to 2019. The point is how much this increase has been, if
it is within the range and, if not, how much it is above this.
As you can see from the statistics the figures show for 2020 that this
has not been outside of the range of the past 1-2 decades. Certain jumps
from year to year take place in all countries. In Austria, all-cause
death jumped in 2015 by 6.2% compared with the year before. No one drew
any particular attention to this (I assume it was caused by a heavy
influenza and heat in the summer).
But even if the all-cause death figures for Sweden are above the average
of the past years by, let us say, 10%, does this really constitute an
“unprecedented catastrophic pandemic”? Surely not! As we have pointed
out repeatedly pandemics have happened also in 1957-58, 1968, etc.
And, more importantly, does such a pandemic (and such an increase of
all-cause death) justify the worst attacks on civil rights since 1945 in
Western imperialist countries? Banning mass assemblies, curfews at night
or even during the whole day, closure of all small business, schools,
universities, leisure centres, etc.?! This was never ever the position
of Marxists, not even of ordinary democrats and liberals! No one had
such an idea in the past decades when similar pandemics happened! No,
the left-wing Lockdown supporters have breached all basic principles of
Marxism and are now looking for arguments to justify this.
Anyway, I repeat my question to the Lockdown supporters in the U.S. and
in Australia: can you please provide figures for all-cause death in 2020
for your country (compared with past years, and if possible 1-2
decades)? That would help to assess the gravity of this pandemic.
Am 17.11.2020 um 14:12 schrieb Daniel Lindvall:
Then add to these figures the class aspect of how ”no close down” works: Middle
and upper classes work from home or in individual offices, travel by car and
can afford to have their food delivered. They can self-isolate in spacious
homes. Working class people have to go work, using public transport during the
rush hours, and go out to shop for food, and live in increasingly cramped
apartments. So, if we take into account that the increased mortality rate
overall is perhaps twice as high (since Covid struck only during the spring)
and then the class aspect, what would the increased mortality rate for the
working class be? I won’t try to guess, but it’s it must be quite bad.
Official mortality figures for Sweden during the six months January-June 2020
are just in. They show that there was an increase in mortality for men of 14%
and for women 10% compared to the same period in 2019, attributed to Covid. We
should then remember that Covid started to spread for real in Sweden only
during the last 2-3 months of this six month period. So, yes, Covid has
definitely led to an increase in mortality rates. A rather sharp one, I’d say.
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