Israel vs. Sweden
Two countries of similar population and diverging COVID-19 outcomes as of the end of January, 2022
Israel and Sweden have similar populations. Israel has 9.4M souls, Sweden 10.4M, a 10% difference in Sweden’s favour. Israel’s population is significantly younger than is Sweden’s, with a median age of 34 compared to 41 for Sweden. Early in the Forever Pandemic, Israeli’s outcomes from the excruciatingly Novel and Terrifying virus appeared to be better than Sweden’s. However, from about May of 2021, Sweden has been doing better than Israel both as to alleged “cases” (positive tests) and the more vital metric of deaths from (or is it with?) COVID-19. The charts below tell the story.
Cumulative So-Called Cases
The two charts below show cumulative COVID-19 “cases” from Israel and Sweden, respectively since the beginning of this grim fandango of overwrought fear and authoritarianism, taken from Worldometer’s coof pages for Israel and Sweden, respectively.
The y-axis, is a cumulative total, so inflate Israel’s numbers by 10% if you wish the numbers to be fully comparable. Notice that Israel has added more than 1.5M “cases” in the current wave, compared to only about 800K for Sweden.
Deaths
The two charts below show cumulative COVID-19 deaths in Israel and Sweden, respectively once again lifted from Worldometer’s RoRo pages for Israel and Sweden, respectively. Granting that Sweden jumped out to an early lead on this unfortunate metric in 2020—before the vaunted vaccinological virtuosos of Pfizer and Moderna saved us from our fear with their Extraordinarily Effective (and Scientific) products— notice how the Swedish line is essentially flat since the end of May, 2021, while Israel has seen two considerable death waves since then, manifesting as one step increase from August through November of 2021, and another one beginning in early January of 2021.
Another way of looking at deaths is the daily deltas as shown in the charts below, again lifted from Worldometer. The difference between Israel and Sweden both as to the summer wave of 2021 and the variant from Omicron Persei 8 is stark. Israel’s worst day of the Megatron panic is 3X that of Sweden despite Sweden’s 10% larger population. It has been more than six months since Sweden has seen absolute numbers of COVID-related deaths like the ones Israel is experiencing now.
Hysteria Level
It is well-known that the government of Sweden adopted a somewhat low-key posture to the Forever Virus phenomenon, at least in contrast to the other countries. The graph below, taken from the Our World in Data “stringency index” page purports to graph the relative hysteria levels of Sweden and Israel based on an index number that some group of nerds has created and which I use in default of anything better.
Injection Rates
The graph below, lifted from an Our World in Data accessible here, shows the number of doses of the injectable pharmaceutical products administered per 100 people living in the country.
The unicorn rate of 200, which neither country has yet attained, theoretically represents two shots of the Very Scientific and Healthy formula injected into every man, woman, child, and newborn infant in the land. Of course in reality as opposed to theory, that unattainable 200 number reflects fanatic boosting by the older junkies of society, who are as addicted to fear as they are to magic injections which, somehow, don’t make them any less fearful than they were before they got them.
Israel is renowned for adopting Al Capone’s famous maxim, “inject early and inject often” (brought to you by Pfizer). You can see this brilliant gamble at work in the early days of 2021 as the Israeli vaxstapo go bananas injecting everything in sight, reaching the 100 dose per person milestone by mid-March of 2021. Sweden starts off in a slow burn and does not cross the 100 dose line until July 20, 4 months later.
The fascinating thing is, despite being somewhat retarded (as the French say) the Swedes are as hot for the shot as anybody around, and have finally all but closed the gap. This means they have to be boosting like crazy these days, too.
Hypothesis
This isn’t exactly a new and original theory, but as we observe the similarity in the two countries’ populations, and the current near-identical dosing rates amongst their resident non-player characters, two differences appear on the charts of hysteria levels and dosing levels.
Sweden was more open than Israel, early on presumably making it easier for the virus to spread betwixt the population, which, at the time, the wiser members of their bureaucracy understood was a Good Thing.
Sweden lagged Israel in injecting its sheeple, which, especially when combined with the first point, must have led to far more Swedes than Israelis receiving the “natural” form of infection before they converted their bodies into pharmaceutically-induced spike protein factories.
To reduce the idea to its essence: Sweden has much higher rates of “natural natural” immunity than Israel. Israel has much higher rates of “fake pharma” immunity than Sweden. This could explain Sweden’s superior performance vis-à-vis both infection and untimely demise during the Megatron phase of the Forever Pandemic.
As regards Israel’s current problem with infections in relation to Sweden, it is hard to blame this difference on the Very Safe and Effective Pfizer injections, by themselves, since Sweden has pretty much shot itself up to the same levels as Israel by now, although there is confounding in terms of, timing, brand of pharmaceutical injection, age of population and so on.
As regards Israel’s current problem with deaths from the Very Novel and Scary coronavirus, it can’t be explained by population “vaccination” levels alone since both countries are about the same. There are, however, other plausible explanations, for example that Sweden’s early botched handing of the very real nursing home crisis caused it to burn through a population of “dry kindling” which is only now catching fire in Israel.
Bonus Graph: Excess Deaths
The below graph is taken from the Our World in Data’s cumulative excess deaths during the COVID plandemic page, and presented without comment.
Presumably vitamin D levels are higher in Israel, and obesity and other co-morbidities are less prevalent (not to mention the "age" of the population that you highlighted). The other side of this coin is population density and the virus' interaction with the environment (humidity, UV, etc...).