Too soon to tell. Sweden is playing the long game. Taking all the hits up front to end it sooner and save lives in the “long” run.
Are they right? Who knows, but you sure can’t tell NOW in the middle (or beginning) of the game. Taking this course was ALWAYS going to have higher consequences in the beginning.
So all the carping at Sweden NOW is pointless and more importantly MEANINGLESS. Time will tell.
It will also tell about the shutdown/lower the curve strategy. If it was wrong, there will be more deaths on the back end.
Maybe it will be a wash, except that we DESTROYED our economy for nothing.
We probably won’t know for sure for up to a YEAR! If ever the real TRUTH.
AUDIO: 13m02s: 26 Apr: 3AW: Luke Grant: “Effects of the lockdown are worse than the virus”: The real dangers of COVID-19 could still be ahead of us
Is it really better to be safe than sorry? A leading UK pathology professor warns us that the ramifications of a country going into lockdown could cause more damage than Coronavirus.
Professor John Lee is a writer for the UK Spectator, a retired professor of pathology and a former NHS consultant and he joined Luke Grant on Australia Overnight to give some perspective on the further reaching effects of COVID-19.
“The trouble with it is that they (government) have erred on the side of better ‘safe than sorry’… it’s a general principle of medicine, that when you’re giving a treatment to people, first do no harm.”
Professor Lee shines light on the fact that nations have overestimated the dangers of, and underestimated the danger of a population going into lockdown.
“The lockdown has side effects. From the economic side effects, from direct health side effects… people aren’t accessing health care, to health problems that were storing up for the future like people not coming in for their cancer screenings, not presenting themselves early enough when they have got chest pains for heart attacks.”
Professor Lee also touches on the murky origins of Coronavirus and if we may ever have a cure for the deadly disease.
https://www.3aw.com.au/podcast/effects-of-the-lockdown-are-worse-than-the-virus-the-real-dangers-of-covid-19-could-still-be-ahead-of-us/
I would not use the word nothing, we have kept our death rate in 10th place in the world by some of the measures. However if we took NY metro out of the equation our death rate would be much lower, and I don't think killing our entire country's economy saved any lives in NY or any other city. Those were goners no matter what we did.