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Old 07-09-2020, 12:12 PM
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It discusses the situation in Sweden and Denmark. Neither country had the community spread we have here.

I haven't studied Denmark much, but I do know quite a bit about Sweden.

Recall that Sweden never locked down, used masks, or closed their schools for 16 and under ages.

Sweden currently has 7300 confirmed cases per million, USA is 9772 per million

However, USA has tested double the amount per capita that Sweden has. So they could easily have as many cases per capita as USA, lots of asymptomatics are hidden.

The facts are, Sweden never closed their kindergartens, primary or secondary schools
and have had exactly 9 deaths from covid in age groups under 30 years old. Zero from under 19

Can you really use their experience with safety of reopening schools as a guideline to the situation in the US where we are far and away the worst petri dish in the world

Why yes, we can. Remember, Sweden's schools (16 and under) stayed open and never closed. Only 9 deaths under 30 reported in Sweden. Zero under 19

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Looky there! Sweden closely matched the "petri dish" of USA in terms of cases per million for the last 3 months, and only recently began to come down. Quoting total cases for one day for a country of 330,000,000 vs one with 10,000,000 is not very scientific.

So in review, Sweden's schools stayed open during several months when their cases per million was closely matching that of USA, but they only had 9 deaths under 30. Zero under 19

Those are the facts.

Last edited by GoodLife; 07-09-2020 at 04:40 PM.