Ikea
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Ikea is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 07, 2021 and November 03, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Ikea comes from Denmark”; “grudgingly accepting reality and buying IKEA”. It most often appears alongside 23andme, ABBA, ACX Grants.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 07, 2021
- Last seen: November 03, 2023
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All of this gets really confusing and I think everyone on all sides of this debate should agree to just never mention Sweden again. Not just with respect to coronavirus policy. At all. If anyone asks, there are only two Scandinavian countries, Ikea comes from Denmark, and ABBA was just a weird dream. In conclusion, the weaker Swedish lockdown in the early phase of the pandemic probably increased the death rate by a factor of two (using other European countries as a counterfactual/control) to five (using other Scandinavian countries as a counterfactual/control). These people investigate this question more formally and find something similar. These changes in death rate mean the policy caused an extra 1,000 to 3,000 deaths in the early phase of the pandemic. There was probably less effect in the later phases of the pandemic because Sweden’s lockdown policy was closer to everyone else’s.
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If all of this is too ambitious, come up with a roadmap for how to start with small achievable victories and build up to cathedrals and concert halls. For example, maybe we should start by getting someone to produce the sort of Art Nouveau furniture everyone wistfully lists on their Pinterest before grudgingly accepting reality and buying IKEA. If that works, we can leverage what we’ve learned and the publicity we’ve gained to start working on bigger targets.