Discursive analysis

Sweden has had 57 deaths per 100,000 people, compared with five in Norway and 11 in Denmark. (For the UK, it  is 61, and for the US it is 51.) However, “The economic impact was only slightly reduced by not imposing a more effective compulsory lockdown”

Sheridan’s analysis suggests young people – whose spending makes little contribution to the overall economy – were least likely to change their behaviour and might have undermined the voluntary lockdown. Among people aged between 18 and 29, spending dropped far less in Sweden than in Denmark. Sweden’s capital Stockholm had a voluntary lockdown Tegnell, meanwhile, says the high death rate in Sweden was related to the failure to prevent infections in care homes. Matters have now been improved, he says. Half of Sweden’s deaths were in care homes up to mid-May. What about the economy? “This has never been done to save the economy. It’s been done to save public health,” says Tegnell. That means public health in a broad sense, he adds, not just the coronavirus. That said, Sheridan’s spending comparison suggests that the economic impact was only slightly reduced by not imposing a more effective compulsory lockdown. What’s more, recent data released by another bank indicates that spending in Denmark has recovered faster than in Sweden, says Sheridan. Others have claimed that Sweden suffered less of an economic decline on the basis of initial estimates of GDP for the second quarter of 2020. Sweden’s fell by 8.6 per cent, less than the estimated average of 11.9 per cent for the European Union (EU) as a whole. However, those making such claims fail to point out that several countries that did impose compulsory lockdowns did as well or better. GDP fell by 8.4 per cent in the Czech Republic, for instance, and by just 5.1 per cent in Lithuania, the lowest in the EU. What all the researchers agree on is that it isn’t over yet. There might be second waves in Denmark and Norway that Sweden avoids because so many people there have already been infected, although it is too soon to compare figures. Achieving herd immunity was one of Tegnell’s aims, but antibody surveys suggest that only about 20 per cent of people in Stockholm have been infected, similar to levels in London and New York. That is far short of the roughly 70 per cent level estimated to be needed.

Occur place: Sweden, Denmark, Stockholm, Norway and other European countries.

Linking words: whose, likely, just, that, such, yet, so, already, although.

Language features: present simple, past simple, present perfect simple, present perfect continuous and passive voice.

Thinking verbs: suggest, make, point out, estimate, need, care.

Synonyms: drop-reduce-decline-fell-fail, little-less, care-save, now-recent,

Antonyms: reduce-improve, initial-second, whole-quarter,

Discourse markers: However, meanwhile, what's more, for instance, what, but.

Modal: might have undermined, might be, can be.

Preposition: among, by, over, about, for.

Anaphoric refences: their, he, that, it, those,

Cataphohic references: young people, it,

Exophoric references: others.

Substitution:did, he, it, so.

Ellipsis: more than five times, more than 11 times , it is 61 death, it is 51 death , agree on this analysis.

Form: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition.

Function: subject, predicate, determiner, subirdinator, correlator, modifier.

Others have claimed that Sweden suffered less of an economic decline on the basis of initial estimates of GDP for the second quarter of 2020.

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