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Originally Posted by devorejh
Based on where the data is now we should never have shut down. Protecting the most vulnerable is what Sweden did, and letting everyone else, with common sense protections, continue to run their businesses and go to work. That is what should’ve been done. That’s the only way we will achieve herd immunity. The people that have isolated themselves have to come out eventually and they are going to run into asymptomatic people that have this. All this approach we took did was prolong the inevitable, and destroy our economy temporarily.
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Sweden is anticipated to have 10584 deaths by August 14 with a population of only 10 million. The US is 33 times larger which would then have approximately 349000 using their model.
I wouldn’t call that a success.