Quote
Rams43
As to your Sweden stats? They’re not all that different than those of the USA, really. .
Well yes the Sweden stats are different, they're worse. You mentioned 39%, my source mentioned 90% in general half of whom were in retirement homes.
But let's say for arguments sake they;re not THAT different.
That was my point.The point being this---no, there has been no approach that has WORKED where people say "let the less vulnerable do what they want while we protect the more vulnerable." That does not work. Sweden tried it. It did not work. And it's very easy to see why it did not work. (Everyone has to be in on containing the virus or it is not contained.)
There are approaches that DO work better. Heck Japan hasn't closed their subways and they don't even do contact tracing, but--fully accounting for the population difference--their death toll overall from covid-19 is 2% of the American death toll (and that even with a partial lockdown in the USA). The one thing people can point to right now to explain the numbers is that everyone in Japan wears masks, all the time, everywhere. So far the facts suggest that that is what makes Japan different.
....
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2020 11:45AM by zn.