Posted by:
schrodingerscat
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Date: May 21, 2020 05:58PM
Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> One of the ironies of recent months has been the
> "Road to Damascus" conversion of conservative
> Americans to the advantages of Swedish government.
> The decision not to impose social distancing and
> masking requirements, the born-agains tell us, was
> the right way to go. Sweden would achieve herd
> immunity while avoiding significant economic
> disruption.
>
> But the worm turns. Last week Sweden, with a
> population of ten million, saw over 2,000 deaths
> from COVID-19--roughly the same number as the
> United States with its 330 million people. If my
> math is correct, that implies a current rate of
> fatalities that is 33 times higher than in the
> USA, which accords with the 30-35X predicted by
> the new epidemiological models publicized last
> week.
>
Your math isn't correct.
94,629 Covid Deaths in the US, not 2,000.
> And how about herd immunity? Has Sweden managed
> to achieve that? According to Sweden's Public
> Health Authority, the answer is a definitive "no."
> The percentage of the population that has
> antibodies against the disease is 7%, about the
> same as in countries that imposed SIP orders and
> have therefore experienced much lower fatality
> rates. 2,000 Swedish experts have now publicly
> demanded that the government reverse course and
> impose restrictions rather than continuing to
> endure super-normal death rates for no reason at
> all.
>
> It thus transpires that all those fuzzy-thinking,
> conspiratorial scientists in the United States and
> other countries were right, and the armed
> "patriots" protesting in state capitols and
> screaming at nurses were wrong. Who would have
> guessed?
>
>
>
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-coronavirus> -plan-is-a-cruel-mistake-skeptical-experts-say-202
> 0-5
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/health/sweden-herd-
> immunity-coronavirus-intl/index.html
It's too early to call, but in the race for herd immunity, it appears Sweden is winning. The Prize for winning is far more of their population that is immune to the disease than they are in China, where the 2nd Wave is already starting and they wish they had the same antibody rate as Sweden.