Posted on 05/04/2020 11:55:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We will have to wait and compare the numbers a year from now. The question is whether or not Sweden is protecting it’s population more (than we are) for the period of November 2020 through April 2021, by obtaining greater herd immunity this season, and us getting a bigger 2nd wave than Sweden winds up getting. Time will tell.
Is abrogating the bill of rights the right solution.
Give me liberty or give me quarantine?
This author was an idiot, because he ignored where Sweden was on the “total infection” curve.
If sweden is halfway to herd immunity, and the other countries are only 25% of the way, you have to double the death rates for the other countries to do the comparison.
He also ignores the population density; Norway for example is only 2/3rd of Sweden, which means they naturally have more distancing, by quite a bit. At some point, a low enough population density makes it impossible to spread the virus much.
It’s the ONLY option. We are going to be doing the same thing. We are just doing it slower.
Unless you plan on living the rest of your life in a bubble, “Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”.
There was a game between Valencia and Atalanta but Valencia itself doesn’t have a large outbreak. The virus also didn’t garner a lot of attention at the time. The main culprit for the national outbreak is a large march in Madrid for International Women’s Day. The organizers of the march knew of the danger and ignored it. They even carried signs mocking the virus. The Prime Minister’s wife, who later tested positive for the virus, participated in the march. Things turned bad very quickly after that.
At least their nightmare was short and is over.
You can’t rely on simplistic comparisons like that. The population demographics are too different between Michigan and Sweden. Michigan has several times the black population of Sweden, and the death toll among blacks has been very high in Michigan. Michigan also has a higher obesity rate than Sweden. Probably lots of other factors to consider as well, but those were the first two that came to mind.
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