After 6 months without lockdown, Sweden's COVID-19 deaths, infections bottom out

Just the News ^ | August 2,2020 | By Daniel Payne

[Hojczyk]

After months without lockdowns, school closures and other mitigation measures widely imposed across the world, Sweden's coronavirus cases and deaths have fallen to such minimal levels as to revive the debate over its so-called herd immunity strategy.

Some Swedish officials are far from declaring victory, warning there could be a second wave and that too many elderly died in the country during its comparatively lax pandemic restrictions. The country's population-adjusted death rate, meanwhile, is in the top 10 worldwide, but lower than the rates for Italy, Spain and even New York, where heavy lockdowns prevailed.

Perhaps more pointedly, in countries that imposed some of the more draconian lockdowns in the Western world — the U.K., Italy, Spain — the pandemic at times seemed to rage out of control compared with Sweden's relatively level epidemic curve. Italy and Spain at the height of their outbreaks recorded many hundreds of deaths per day and saw, at times, local health systems on the verge of collapse.

Throughout the pandemic, Swedish authorities have insisted that their country's approach was one rooted in years of epidemiological research and that much of the rest of the world abandoned that data in favor of panic and hysteria.

"It was as if the whole world had gone mad," Tegnell said several weeks ago, citing the worldwide rush to lock down and quarantine. "The cases became too many, and the political pressure got too strong. And then Sweden stood there rather alone."

The epidemiologist has several times argued that the true results of various countries' approaches to the coronavirus pandemic will only become clear after several years' worth of study.

"There is no way of knowing how this ends," Tegnell said in June.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So in the end the virus washes through as it will.

How quickly or how slowly is wholly dependent on what mitigation strategies are employed.

[USS Alaska]

With no lock down, Sweden kept it's schools, bars, and whore houses open {even the gay ones}, and it's death rate was equal to my state, PA, 568/million.

NY and NJ had a death rate 300% HIGHER THAN SWEDEN with deaths over 1600+/million, and no one locked down tighter and longer than these two communist states.

NJ has even arrested a coupla gym owners, even though they have documented, 13,000 visitors with zero cases of the chi-com virus.

Some blue states have gone insane.

[FreeReign]

So in the end the virus washes through as it will. How quickly or how slowly is wholly dependent on what mitigation strategies are employed.

If only Fauci was so honest and concise.

[Flick Lives]

Lockdowns make no difference. Masks make no difference. The population eventually reaches herd immunity. Lockdowns and masks delay but don’t stop the process.

States with the highest deaths per 100,000 are those states with a policy of putting recovering Covid patents into nursing homes.

[Hojczyk]

I think the Northern States tend to have a population that is sicker than the rest of the county...

Less sunshine and less exercise because there stuck inside more..

[Flick Lives]

Less sunshine and less exercise because there stuck inside more..

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Yup. Vitamin D3 is a factor.

[USS Alaska]

What amazes me is that your thread, one that should generate YUGE interest, attracts less than 10 replies.

I have no idea why.

[walkingdead]

“as to revive the debate over its so-called herd immunity strategy.”

Debate? How is something that is well known, and the way humanity has dealt with viruses FOR OUR ENTIRE EXISTENANCE be a debate?

[Tymesup]

If I remember correctly, this article is a repeat.