Posted on 05/07/2020 6:57:31 AM PDT by grundle
I just created this meme.
It says, “Sweden did not have a lockdown. Experts predicted that it would have 40,000 COVID-19 deaths by May 1. The actual number was 2,769.”
Please feel free to share it.
You can see a bigger version of it at this link: https://imgflip.com/i/40hdj9
I got the numbers from this link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/sweden-suppressed-infection-rates-without-lockdown/
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Thanks.
Thanks!
The “experts” have not been right even once on coronavirus.
I would go further - current death tolls don’t tell the whole story.
If a country got 50% of the way to herd immunity by allowing people to interact a bit more...
their ultimate death toll (measured 1 year in the future)…
will be a lot less than the ultimate death toll of a country that only got 20% of the way to herd immunity
bkmk
Yes...a Prog friend told me I needed to “trust the medical experts.”
But the models and science!!!
And those 2084 deaths are inflated as the official protocol for determining these deaths is terribly flawed to falsely inflate these covid-19 death tolls
As this video shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfG9nmAnQp4
And I purposefully typed that 2084 death toll number as a reference to 1984 “big brother”, and to not to report their fake numbers. If they can make up numbers for death tolls why can’t I?
I've discovered what your problem is.
You cannot rationalize with irrational people.
Stop beating your head against the wall trying.
There are FReepers on this site that have argued with me that the economy would have been destroyed if we hadn't locked downed the country because the millions who would have died from the virus without taking all of these precautions, would have decimated the economy anyway.
Huh?
I’m very surprised at the trust that people show for government and the news media.
The news media are the enemy of the American people.
It’s global warming on steroids.
And vastly more thousands didn't die in harsh lockdown NYC?
it’s false - Sweden had a suggested lockdown not a forced one. And the Swedes trust and follow their government, so they stayed at home, resulting in an actual reduction in people outside to nothing and also people wear masks and practice social isolation
“...the Swedes trust and follow their government, so they stayed at home, resulting in an actual reduction in people outside to nothing and also people wear masks and practice social isolation”
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Many sit down restaurants remain open, people are out and about, schools for kids 16 & younger remained open. When looking at CURRENT pictures and videos from Sweden I don’t see a lot of people wearing masks. But you are largely right. The older (and presumably also Swedes with “conditions”) people are not seen in those pictures/videos so they are likely self-isolating. So Sweden is in the process of gaining a large measure of “herd immunity” while protecting the vulnerable.
The pictures are selective
The pictures are selective
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Dude, I spent about 1/2 hour “surfing the internet” using Google and DuckDuckGo. There are some people using masks but an equal number (actually probably more) NOT using masks. The younger the people, the less likely they were using masks. I did NOT see a lot of older Swedes out but I will give you that the crowds were sparser than I would suspect and a lot of social distancing was being practiced. I don’t think DuckDuckGo would censor its selected images and as far as Google goes, they’d be more likely to censor images of people who were not wearing masks.
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