Looking at Sweden’s Coronavirus worldometer (every country has one) There doesn’t seem to be any appreciable difference between the infection curve there and the infection curve of other countries. Same goes for the death curve. Yet Sweden chose not to destroy its economy with a massive lockdown.
It is surprising that a country like Sweden, a fan of the UN and home to many socialists, went its own way and discovered a better way than just about every other country.
The flubros are owed a giant apology
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Good work.
Keep up the fire!
I live in Ohio. Herr DeWine is going to wring every ounce of control he can out of this. Latest word is he may require masks to be worn by everyone, everywhere in public, once the restrictions are eased.
I’m getting more than a little angry over this trampling of my rights.
Standard view is that “it would have been worse in the US but we successfully mitigated the danger through isolation”.
But I think that is really coming into question. There is evidence that isolation and the economic shutdown did little or nothing to help. Other countries did not shutdown and don’t seem to have suffered more from the disease. So it may be reasonable to see COVID19 as a flu season significantly less serious than the 2017 flu season.
If we open back up, I don’t think the sky will fall. And I do think the economy will explode in a very good way.
Sweden Coronavirus Death rate
Confirmed 11,445 Deaths 1,033
that is a high number compared to America.
Occam’s Razor: Sweden’s economy was already the socialist craphole we’re living in now?
Many of us will have been exposed and never gotten it, high immune systems. Others will have gotten it, and barely noticed. Most vulnerable seem to be the elderly and the extremely obese ~ same for many illnesses
A 2007 analysis of medical journals from the period of the pandemic found that the viral infection was no more aggressive than previous influenza strains. Instead, malnourishment, overcrowded medical camps and hospitals, and poor hygiene promoted bacterial superinfection. This superinfection killed most of the victims, typically after a somewhat prolonged death bed.
A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862
I readily admit I was one of the early supporters of the Quarantine.
As time had gone on and the mortality rate has stayed on par with the common flu, I have realized the destruction of the US economy and maybe even our way of life are at higher risk than the impact of the whu-han flu.
All states need to start social distancing from DC. Secession is the only cure for the Wuhan Scam.