More deaths caused by religion: 12 states exempt religious services from

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See More deaths caused by non-religious people: millions in Sweden (which I started tongue-in-cheek in response to your thread) and especially an informative report from a Swede who encourages us to dig deeper:

More deaths caused by non-religious people: millions in Sweden

I think people may not be getting the full picture here. As a Swede, I’m pretty used to my country being used as a positive or negative example on all kinds of issues and Covid-19 is clearly not an exception. I see the Swedish response to the pandemic being described as laxe or laissez-faire but very little in the way of analysis of the reasoning behind the policies or any insight into the workings of Swedish society. The Swedish Covid-19 policies are different that in most comparable countries, to be sure - but they are considered policies based on science and knowledge of Swedish culture. Every country is unique in its own way. Sweden is a special case in that we are (perhaps sadly) rather good at social distancing even under normal circumstances. We have a higher percentage of single-person households than almost any other country (almost half of our households consist of one person). We are also very age-segregated, partly due to the fact that our youngsters leave home earlier tha…