Ah yes, Sweden. Where the death rate is three times higher than the recovery rate. We should all aspire for such eye popping statistics.
Posted on 04/19/2020 6:58:02 PM PDT by rintintin
Criticized for refusing to lock down, Sweden’s top health official says herd immunity is inevitable and took credit for the slowing of coronavirus numbers.
“According to our modelers, we are starting to see so many immune people in the population in Stockholm that it is starting to have an effect on the spread of the infection,” Anders Tegnell, who led the charge to keep Sweden open, told local media. “Our models point to some time in May.”
Despite social distancing guidelines from the World Health Organization, Sweden has resisted lockdowns, instead keeping open schools, gyms, bars and restaurants and relying on citizens to caution themselves.
Tegnell’s comments echo thoughts about herd immunity, in which most of the population is infected with the assumption that those who survive will not be infected again, floated by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But Johnson eventually folded to the advice of health officials and shut down the United Kingdom.
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Well, Sweden is more free than the USA.
Maybe we are a herd...
We coulda done that...and still have an economy. Maybe Sweden will be the new master of the universe?
I’m thinking Swedish bikini team!
Well, that’s the term that’s been used since forever, frequently in the context of vaccinations.
They are also not as fat as we are. The Chinese Flu targets certain physiology.
Yeah. Kind of like reproductive health. Another dehumanization term. Commies love that stuff.
Glad somebody chose to be the ‘canary in the coalmine’
Currently, their death rate (per capita in general, not per infected) is roughly the same as ours. We’ll see.
Knock off the F-bomb.
Sweden’s approach was not possible with a Republican president facing a re-election. Whether it was Right or wrong is not relevant, it was impossible.
I don’t disagree with what Sweden did, but their number of deaths per million are higher than in the US.
Ah yes, Sweden. Where the death rate is three times higher than the recovery rate. We should all aspire for such eye popping statistics.
The US shut down has been political. The press and the dems are using it as a weapon against Trump and as a leap forward in collectivism.
Likely Trump will come out of this with a roaring economy by July 4, and a B+ grade in handling the outbreak. Personally I would give him an A for action all while holding off the press hyenas.
The US is 33 times larger in population than Sweden. So multiplying the current number of deaths, 1,540, by 33 and you get 50,820 compared to the 40,555 deaths in the US. So about 25% more deaths, but the impact on the economy is far less.
Yes, they lost a lot of Swedes born in Somalia, Yemen, Syria, etc. Read on:
https://www.france24.com/en/20200418-coronavirus-spotlights-swedish-segregation
These are good graphs:
You can add countries. You could add Belgium.
Fair point.
We had damn near 80,000 deaths in 2017 flu season AND our economy was not destroyed!!
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