Posted on 04/09/2020 2:55:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
(Conservative Bosnian child war refuge now Swedish citizen.)
Angry Foreigner | Sweden’s Strategy is To Let The Virus Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1wn8PPB4k&feature=share
If you look at the graphs in DoughtyOne's COVID statistics thread, Sweden is performing the worst of all the Nordic nations. So I don't think I would tout it as a great example.
They didn’t shut down their country. THEY GOT IT RIGHT!
Tell that to the relatives of those who died.
A statement that appeals to people's emotion in the absence of evidence .
Are *all* deaths from COVID-19 preventable? Some people are still going to get sick from COVID-19 and yes, die.
That will happen in Sweden. It will happen in the US. There is NO way tp prevent it. There is a way to minimize it.
It's too soon to determine if Sweden got it right.
Just one thing. If i get it..try not to make a big fuss about it.
I’ve had a full life.. and if my time is up ..so be it.
The problem with your comment is that there "is" evidence, and plenty of it.
"It's too soon to determine if Sweden got it right."
The death rates vs the rest of the Nordic countries say they did not. See DoughtyOne's COVID-19 statistics.
And I feel the same.....BUT...I have a lot of younger relatives that deserve not to die because of stupidity and selfishness.
But YOU didn't provide that when you made your statement. You then pointed so DoughtyOne's stats. Thank you.
Good point. At what point, time-wise will stupidity and selfishness no longer be a factor? 2 months? 6 months? Less? More?
I’ve had family members die in the 20’s and 30’s ..i suspect if the government had spend 5 or 6 million dollars (that’s about what it’s costing us per death) they might have lived?
Or, maybe we have to except that people die ...all the time.
And we can’t expect the government to destroy our economy to save a few thousand people (a very small percent of the population).
Many, or most, that were on their way out anyhow.
ACCEPT that is.
LOL..the real answer is "never". But, for this situation, I think we are turning things around (thanks be to Trump), and things will begin to open in May.
Trump's next move, IMO, is to establish an "economy re-opening" task force, and transfer Pence over to lead it (and no, I don't know who should replace him).
And the cornerstone of that effort needs to be widespread testing for COVID antibodies with mail-in self-swab sampling. This will do two things...1) provide a definitive scientific answer to the "everybody has had it and is largely immune" crowd, and 2) if you have antibodies, you can go back to work.
4/10/2020....More than 850 patients have died from the disease in Sweden and the country has registered around 9,600 confirmed cases — although authorities stress this figure is likely much higher. Only severe cases are hospitalized.
1) Our economy is not "being destroyed".
2) The best science we have still points to a far higher value than "a few thousand people". The meme for "it isn't dangerous because most are immune" is simply wishful thinking.
[4/10/2020....More than 850 patients have died from the disease in Sweden and the country has registered around 9,600 confirmed cases — although authorities stress this figure is likely much higher. Only severe cases are hospitalized.]
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3834021/posts
I suspect that Sweden is what Trump is waiting on to make his decision about opening things back up. As Sweden goes, we’ll go.
Tell that to the 17 million unemployed. And likely that is only the start if this non-sense continues for more than a couple more weeks.
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