from the following interview with Swedish professor Johan Giesicke
- Swedens policy is quite similar to the original one in the UK.
- the goal for the Swedish is to protect vulnerable people, herd immunity is a byproduct.
- Icus´s have been tripled.
- number of death will decrease b/c of immunity and frail ones having died
- differences between countries will turn out to be small, regardless of measures
- fatality rate is going to turn out much lower than estimated, maybe 0.1%
- 50% of the population will have had it, South Korea is not able to contain it anymore
- measures do more harm than good
- in democracies you can´t people lock up
- vaccine takes too long
- don´t meet too often with your grandparents until you had it
- in Sweden restaurants are controlled on a local level, only few have violated the rules
- it will take a couple of months to come down from measures
If the “goal is to protect vulnerable people”, they’ve already failed at that goal.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...as-elderly-pay-price-for-coronavirus-strategy
As per 19 April, 1/3 of all deaths in Sweden have been in care homes. This is despite banning visitors to care homes in Sweden, just like the U.K. has done. Yet carers who are going in and out of care homes every day, and in close contact with elderly people, delivery drivers, elderly people who need to go into hospital, will come into contact with coronavirus through the “herd immunity” policy, and therefore infect those in care homes.
This is exactly what happened in the UK and it is absurd that decision makers could not see this simple conclusion that the rest of us spotted within seconds. Also, how do they know who is vulnerable? It’s not just those in care homes. Why are people with no underlying health conditions and in their 30s, also dying? Why are those who are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, dying? Those people very often aren’t in care homes, so will be exposed to “herd immunity” and therefore the coronavirus fully.
Moreover, just comparing the figures of other nearby countries:
“The death rate in
Sweden has now risen significantly higher than many other countries in Europe, reaching more than
21 per 100,000 people, according to figures from
Johns Hopkins University, controlled for population.
By contrast,
Denmark has recorded more than
seven deaths per 100,000 people, and both
Norway and Finland less than four.
Sweden has registered 18,640 coronavirus cases and 2,194 deaths among its population of
10.3 million people.
Denmark has had 8,773 cases and 422 deaths in a population of
5.8 million, Norway 7,449 cases and 202 deaths among its
5.4 million people, and Finland 4,576 cases and 190 deaths in its population of
5.5 million.
Denmark and
Norway are now beginning to ease their lockdowns, with children returning to school in the past 10 days, in smaller classes with markers to help keep them two meters apart. Salons and other businesses with one-to-one contact will reopen in Norway from Monday. Finland has extended its restrictions until May 13.
Further afield the
Czech Republic, which has a similar-sized population --
10.7 million -- to Sweden, has recorded 7,404 cases and 221 deaths -- around
two deaths per 100,000 people. It took a markedly different approach to the pandemic by shutting schools, closing restaurants and bars and most stores, restricting travel and ordering mandatory quarantines for travelers from at-risk regions in early March. It has also made it compulsory for people to wear face masks in public”.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/28/europe/sweden-coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-intl/index.html?
I don’t think Sweden is doing well by any measure. They’re not really protecting vulnerable people, while generating “herd immunity”, are they. Instead those vulnerable people are dead.
