The Author gives the following reasons why Sweden’s Strategy will eventually be adopted by the rest of the world:
* Swedish authorities have argued that the country’s higher death rate will appear comparatively lower in hindsight. Efforts to contain the virus are doomed to fail in many countries, and a large percentage of people will be infected in the end. When much of the world experiences a deadly second or more waves, Sweden will have the worst of the pandemic behind it.
* Lockdowns are simply not sustainable for the amount of time that it will likely take to develop a vaccine. Letting up will reduce economic, social, and political pressures. It may also allow populations to build an immunity that will end up being the least bad way of fighting COVID-19 in the long run.
Among other things, this doesn’t take into account mutations.
See the lovely lakes, the wonderful telephone system, and many interesting and furry animals, including the majestic møøse.
It was clear more than a momth ago that this was the best approach. The Swedes rightly calculated that delaying the inevitable was not worth the cost.
I started posting this in late February....and now there is “scientific data” to back this up;
1) MOST of us have been exposed.
2) MANY of us have been “infected”
3) SOME of us have been “symptomatic”
and, unfortunately
4) SOME of the infected and symptomatic will be really sick and die.
And now the data shows that category 4 are mostly very elderly with multiple co-morbidities aka “underlying conditions”.
This has NEVER been about YOUR health.
This has NEVER been about “protecting the most vulnerable”
Call me a FLUbro...that would be a badge of honor.
That this is published in Foreign Affairs means that the lockdown enthusiasts have lost the backing of the big global money. It lets Mario Cuomo know that it’s OK to unlock.
I don’t know about Herd immunity, but I have seen a lot of Herd mentality.
Trump realized that doing what Sweden did is a political failure. The Democrats would feature focus groups of surviving family members on TV until the election.
Now that we softened the blow on the hospitals, it’s time to take the political risk of a second wave by getting back to regular life.
Safely? WTF! The question should be, “How to get there with minimum deaths and damage to the economy?”
What do you expect from the elitist Foreign Affairs?
This was obvious $5 trillion ago.
Hydroxycloroquine WITH ZINC, that’s how. It’s cheap and effective.
Where are we headed?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NyvVfQNfXtZDP0ZgVYw6Mw5X_B6pdK-gXFyd9g1zJgA/mobilebasic
Sweden should not be a model for this nor for a few other things in my opinion.
Islamic Invasion?
Socialized Medicine?
So, let’s follow them on this one...
Well...one way to NOT get there is to tell people to board themselves up in their homes.
Oh, great, another model, this time on the rosy side.
Everything I’ve ever read has said 2/3 are required for herd immunity, now the rosy-scenario modelers are saying much less.
Spanish Flu killed 50-100 million worldwide. Only a max of 20% of the global population were estimated to have been infected.
Spanish Flu faded and disappeared by the early 1920s with no vaccine, and no herd immunity.
Social distance sufficiently well for a long enough time, and a pandemic will fade on its own.
Herd immunity means we can live normally, with no social distancing, and the virus will not find enough viable new hosts to infect.
But you can accomplish the same with social distancing alone, without sacrificing millions on the altar of herd immunity.
Busybodies vs. life
The secret place of the Most High