How Helsinki, Finland kept the lowest COVID death rate in all of Europe.

Finland has maintained the lowest death rate of all of Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here's how capital city Helsinki and Mayor Jan Vapaavuori worked to keep cases low and prioritize the community’s mental wellbeing.
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[@ranjitcherian7292]

I LOVE FINLAND I LOVE FINLAND I LOVE FINLAND. LOVE LOVE LOVE AND MORE LOVE TO FINLAND AND ITS PEOPLE.

[@waynesmith6784]

I loved my visits to Helsinki and can easily understand how Finland dealt with Covid so well; people there used to say it would be relatively easy for me to get citizenship- Finnish roots- and now I think “ if only.”

[@hatiecatar1651]

For geochemical reasons Finland is a low-selenium area. In the 1960's several diseases associated with serious Se deficiency were observed in domestic animals. Selenium medication of animals and selenium supplementation of animal feeds from 1969 effectively eliminated these diseases Technologies to increase the selenium content of foods and feeds were developed and an official decision was reached to add, starting in 1984, sodium selenate to the main fertilizers to increase the selenium content of domestic grain to about 100 micrograms/kg. This measure will increase the average selenium intake above 50 micrograms/d even in the years when grain with a high selenium content is not imported.

[@karenakarenau499]

Does regular use of sauna help?

[@gamerjohn310]

Not a densely populated country, little income inequality, more introverted culture, and public trust in authorities

[@Labbish1]

@Rupprecht Kurt Hasselbuttelmann-Fitzmeisterjaeger Move there then. Bye!

[@diamondsarenotforever8542]

@Rupprecht Kurt Hasselbuttelmann-Fitzmeisterjaeger For heaven's sake! Move there.

[@blackalien6873]

@Rupprecht Kurt Hasselbuttelmann-Fitzmeisterjaeger Surely you can afford a ticket to your paradise North Korea. Go please!

[@oshixxxx]

@Rupprecht Kurt Hasselbuttelmann-Fitzmeisterjaeger Not sure how a nations people, not able to speak a single world to the outside world, could be honest about anything. But please, heed my voice, try moving to this paradise as fast as possible.

[@gensyed]

Apart from what was said, oould the policy of Vitamin D fortification in some of Finland 's food stuff got anything to do with it?

[@juliobro1]

It's odd that the video doesn't explain much. "Followed rules", which were...? "Not afraid to loose their jobs", why and how...?

[@JormaKovanen]

En taatusti saa julkisen sektorin puolelta Helsingissä hammashoitoa, vaikka juuri nyt sitä tarvitsisin. Turhaa propagandaa.

[@icyivy2424]

Keep my Ville Valo *SAFE* ❤

[@indieflopqueen]

yes! i love him

[@Clem_Fandango11]

It's not a densly populated country for starters.

[@ranacker]

They are talking about Helsinki, which is pretty densly populated.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

@Juho Mäkinen Helsinki 1,187 people per square mile. Greater London 15,528 people per square mile. The 2 can't even be compared.

[@butterfly9274]

@Juho Mäkinen Finland is the size of California!

[@e30clew]

I’m a Swedish citizen and our strategy is a disaster in so many ways. My mother is Finnish but my father Swedish, would that help me get Finnish citizenship? I have a summer house in Finland so I have an address and will get a good job in the tech sector, I have two interviews lined up in Finland already. Finland is better in so many ways, and besides corona, I want to give my future kids the best life and schools in Finland is up there on the top of school systems in the world! Would be awesome if someone knew something about doing something like this! Thanks!

[@e30clew]

I don’t speak much Finnish but I would move to the Wasa region approximately. I know I can get work visa if I have a job waiting. But I have had it here. I want to live there permanently

[@gyderian9435]

@@e30clew finnish citizenship should automatically come trough at least one finnish parent i think. And on the western coast you'll do fine with swedish. I was just looking at recent covid numbers and was very surprised to see sweden with 1 million more cases than finland. Even estonia has had more cases than us, oddly

[@LisaMaryification]

@@e30clew If you move to Western Finland, or even decide to move to Helsinki, you can get along with Swedish or English. Swedish is an official language there and you can request legal documents in Swedish. Also, most people there speak excellent English, so you would have no problem communicating with either Swedish or English.

[@rezaulhasan545]

Sir when open visit visa

[@dazza4345]

16 percent of the population have Hla B27 which is a virus killer.

[@butterfly9274]

*The population is small*

[@LisaMaryification]

At one point there was a meme floating around where Finland had -1 death. The guy came back to life. lol. I studied in Finland for a year back in 2003, and during that winter I got what they called the 'Finnish Flu' which was apparently very common. So common that vomit lined the sidewalks during winter. I was so sick I couldn't move for 3 days. I sometimes wonder if that was Covid. That would explain why the numbers were so low in Finland throughout this pandemic. Could Finland have had pre-existing immunity to Covid?

[@johanpetersson5356]

Another reason is that Swedish people going with the Finland ferries never goes ashore when they reach Helsinki ( why should they), they just take the next boat home to stockholm

[@formatique_arschloch]

The same boat.

[@oliverjames2351]

Silja Line was mine and my girlfriend's first getaway together, so many good memories of Stockholm... But Helsinki is where my heart belongs :)

[@kalleh6377]

The statement that people are following rules regarding COVID regulations depends from what perspective we look at. Sure the situation is better than in other European countries, but few that the reaction and decision making was bit slow

[@robbiekekic6814]

It's called saunas

[@aig5429]

Lowest death rate? We are all to die one day and come face to face with the lord!

[@anotherstupidfeature]

The Finns are mainly smart people who know their do's and don'ts. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we also remembered the swine flu which was quite a good lesson what a pandemic is. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic we even started voluntarily to isolate ourselves when we still waited the acts of our sleepy and incapable government. If we Finns weren't smart and prudence and cautious, we could be in a very bad situation at this moment. Look at Sweden for example. We didn't act like they did. This is why we have quite a good condition and it's getting better all the time.

[@LisaMaryification]

@Perusmies I visited Finland twice during the epidemic and I got the impression that Finns weren't that worried about Covid. It wasn't really so much about a sleepy government.

[@kuniebling]

Maybe their sauna use helped.

[@griegs2001]

This is not true "Finland has maintained the lowest death rate of all of Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic". They have done extremely well, but not best. Iceland has, almost twice as good.

[@MY-yt8ik]

And yet, both countries are really isolated from surrounding countries. So they can regulate travel much better

[@blackalien6873]

@@MY-yt8ik Finland is isolated?! What?!

[@MY-yt8ik]

@@blackalien6873 the border between Finland, Sweden and Norway are really up north in a relatively sparsely populated area, and the border with Russia is guarded with border control, so there is not much land-traffic between Finland and its neighbouring countries. So almost all traffic to Finland is by boat or plane, wich makes it much easier to regulate. If you compare this to for example Germany with 9 land borders Finland is much mure isolated.

[@henriikkak2091]

@@MY-yt8ik I'm open to criticism but this just isn't true. The first COVID case was diagnosed in Finland around the Chinese New Year of 2020. It was the ninth case in the entire EU, and first in the Nordic countries. The Helsinki airport is one of the main gateways to Asia, and Lapland very popular among Asian travellers. Why is this relevant? Well, the woman diagnosed was from Wuhan. Just outside the Finnish border is the city of St. Petersburg. Five million inhabitants.

[@MY-yt8ik]

@@henriikkak2091 Well, Helsinki airport is exactly what I mean with isolated. Much travel is by air compared to other European countries like the Netherlands which have thousands of cars crossing the borders every day. And because the border with Russia is having border control it is much more easy for Finland to fully close its borders. Other EU countries would have much more problems because of the open borders and the fact many people travel cross border for work and home

[@itsjustanapple5452]

HA!

[@cgem8426]

YEAH BUT [random rant]! 😀

[@ganimehmeti2462]

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