Sweden:
5,833 deaths
10,111,434 population
0.057 % deaths
USA:
189,283 deaths
331,337,550 population
0.057 % deaths
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
The false positive rate was 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.
“189,283 deaths”
BUT, we know that most of those were in people with serious co-morbidities. CDC issued the qualifying statement that only 10,000 deaths were PURE COVID and the balance were COVID + Something Else.
I wonder if that holds in Sweden, as well.
Being one of the latter I guess I can speak for my group and say the country wide lockdown was not worth the cost. I stayed safe and survived. All the little businesses around me won’t survive or will suck up huge amounts of government borrowed capital.
I compared Swedens numbers to New Jersey because they have similar populations of around 10 million. People in both are closer to one another than in the US as a whole. NJ still had 3X the deaths of an open country, so what did the lockdown get us? Lots of old farts like me dead maybe a few months early and a bonkrupt state... oh wait , we already were bankrupt.