Math was not my best subject, but I’m coming up with an extra 750 deaths in Sweden from not locking down, based on this clown’s calculations.... Seeing as Sweden’s population is roughly 3% of the US...... So I guess they should have shut down their economy and caused massive debt and unemployment to save 750 elderly people
Well as an engineer my math is better than average but a bigger issue is being missed in this.
1. The lockdowns were sold to the American people to achieve one goal, to flatten the curve. We were told that if we could flatten the curve enough we could avoid excess deaths due to hospitals being overwhelmed. Based on ‘expert’ guidance we overshot that mark by a huge margin, likely resulting in excess death due to a crashed economy and hospitals not seeing patients for surgeries, biopsies, etc.
2. Locking down the nation will not change the area under the curve (total number of infections) so comparing the US to Sweden at the point is meaningless. The lockdowns seemed to have slowed the spread to some degree which isn’t a good thing so long as hospitals are empty. We want to get through this as fast as possible without destroying our economy or overwhelming hospitals. Since Sweden didn’t overwhelm hospitals, they obviously made the right decision. They will develop heard immunity much faster than the US and their economy wasn’t crashed while doing it.