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Originally Posted by MikeSid
Both Israel and Sweden have roughly 10M people.
In Sweden, those people have 173K square miles to occupy.
In Israel, those people have to fit in about 8K square miles.
Notwithstanding the simple geographical and population differences, there are huge cultural differences that make comparing the two countries on this particular issue, virtually meaningless.
All that chart illustrates, is that the mask mandate in Israel did not correlate with a reduction in cases.
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You imply that Swedes are evenly spread out across their available land. Nothing could be further from the truth. Much of it is completely unoccupied, with the majority of their population living in densely populated urban areas. Much like other "developed" nations. Much like Israel. So, sorry, but that argument just doesn't wash.
Cultural differences? Yes - Sweden has suffered a massive influx of Muslim refugees from African and Middle Easter schittholes. Notoriously uneducated, non compliant, and unvaccinated. Israel, in contrast, has one of the most homogeneous populations on the planet (along with Japan). If anything, the "cultural differences" strongly favor Israel in this equation.