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by irq11 2031 days ago
> Except for Sweden, where it kept climbing and climbing, funny.

Sweden’s cases started rising in early November, peaked in mid-November, and are now in clear decline:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

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You don't know you passed the peak until you clearly passed the peak. This is not the case so far. (Just take the same graph and ignore the data after a certain date. If you go back to Nov 1, you would have thought you'd be over the peak already, but you arent)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/swedish-p...

There's a Swedish caveat in death data as well https://ourworldindata.org/covid-sweden-death-reporting

> You don’t know you passed the peak until you clearly passed the peak.

What manner of logic is this? Look at the plot: the daily case numbers are in decline. I don’t know what will happen three weeks from now, but I know that it’s factually incorrect to claim that cases are still increasing.

By the same logic you’re using, the very article this is attached to is nonsense: you don’t know if cases in the UK will go up again tomorrow.