To claim that most/many people in Sweden who are over 80+ and 90+ are dead from the corona virus is not true, yes, many have died but it haven't in any way wiped out the elder elders.
Out of 436,679 between 80 an 89 years of age 1,354 have died, making it 0,0031 percent.
Of those who are 90+, 812 out of 99,627 have died, making it 0,0081 percent.
The numbers of people are from the Swedish statistics agency for 2019,
Sveriges befolkningspyramid
So yes, those who are the oldest have been hardest hit, but don't paint the numbers blacker than they are. To imply that most of those who are over 90 in Sweden are dead, for that to be true, the number of Covid-19 deaths in Sweden would have to be close to a third of the total number of the deaths in the entire world today (291,809) for just those over 90 years of age to be dead.
I never said all elders died. I just said that once the very vulnerable are dead, they don't die again. My point is that two things are going on: vulnerable elders are dying AND people are modifying their behavior such that it is hard for me to believe that Sweden isn't doing some social distancing (voluntarily).
As the number of dead over 90 goes up (and it will, those deaths will likely be a continuing issue - perhaps for the next two years), the overall number of deaths then goes down, whether or not social distancing occurs.
I did not mean to imply that everyone over 90 was dead, only that as the exposed and vulnerable 90 year olds die (same for 80-somethings), a lot of other elderly people will self-isolated OR have a milder course - in any case, the numbers will come down as that happens.
When I do those calculations, I get .3 not .003 (the first place past the decimal is 10%, the second place is 1%, the third place is X out of 1000.
That's in keeping with findings elsewhere. If Sweden truly had only 3 people in 100,000 dying in an elder it wouldn't be so high in terms as shown here:
Coronavirus deaths per million by country | Statista
Take a look at your figures. 10% of 99,000 is 0.1*99,000 or 9,900. 1% of 99,000 is 990. 1% of 99,000 is 0.01*99,000.
The number of deaths you quoted is 812, which is closer to 1% than to 0.0081 percent. It's 0,81% (0.81% for us Americans).
Again, 1 percent of 99,600 is 996 - so 812 is getting close to 1%. 0.008 of the population is not .008%, it's almost 1 percent. 0.0081 percent would be .000081*99,000.
Anyway, didn't mean to imply any more doom and gloom than usual, but to me, as numbers approach 1 in 100 people (1%) dying of something, I feel myself quite alarmed. That's indeed a doom and gloom scenario.
https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Covid/SWE-ExtendedResults.pdf
Right now - and please correct me if I'm wrong - many people in Sweden are staying out of crowded, optional spaces, and rural/semi-rural residents are not heading into Stockholm at the same rates as usual (Source: Google analytics). By July, things will have really simmered down and the antibody testing can begin - but people will also go back to their usual activities. Italy is ahead of Sweden, calendar-wise, so keeping an eye on Northern Italy is worth a look:
https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/Covid/LOM-ExtendedResults.pdf
...........moo
