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Your evidence please.
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But then the hospitals, nurses, doctors wouldn’t be able to handle it....
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What about the common cold?
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Update....19,000 cases, 2,200 deaths, back to the drawing board.
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Daily confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people - Our World in Data |
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The problems with the process followed in Sweden are complicated. Sweden, like most other European countries, depends heavily on tourism. Even if Sweden reaches the the herd immunity what happens to the tourists who arrive there? What happens if Swedish tourists come to the USA, or any other country? Will all of those tourists carry the virus back home?
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Vaccines may never be available. There isn’t one for the common cold—another coronavirus—so why should we assume one will be forthcoming for COVID-19?
Witnessing people’s responses to this pandemic has been very intriguing. Liberals seem to want hard-line rules enforced while conservatives seem to want to maintain civil liberties and freedom of choice. Liberals have previously loved to point to Sweden as if they have superior, more learned systems of taxation, governance and healthcare EXCEPT regarding their no-lockdown handling of Coronavirus. Isn’t it a bit ironic? Everyone will get infected. We don’t have immunity and we don’t have a vaccine. It’s really a question of when and how badly. Effective treatments are the best hope to help those who will get severely ill. Somehow our original goal of “slowing the spread” has morphed into avoidance of infection indefinitely which is not possible. Why aren’t the most important statistics routinely reported— especially in central Florida—the current utilization rate of hospital beds, intensive care beds, and ventilators. Not overwhelming our healthcare system is the goal we have all sacrificed to achieve. How are we doing? And these stats are less open to interpretation than are the statistics involving (cause of) deaths or even numbers of infections since some who died were not diagnosed and many who are diagnosed don’t require hospitalization. The most important thing everyone wants to know is whether help (healthcare capacity) is available if you need it. |
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Vaccine already working but need testing on different people and whether feasible to produce in very large quantities. Just google vaccine updates. |
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Sweden is not a perfect model. Someone came up with the clever idea of using the Open Table reservation system as a rough measure of social distancing. In the second week of March 2020, restaurant resos were down 40% in Stockholm from the same week one year earlier. The restaurants are open, but business is down and many are struggling to survive. The Swedish gov't did not require social distancing, but Swedes are social distancing nonetheless. The Swedish economy overall is not doing great. GDP for the year is estimated to decline 3.6% this year, according to the Swedish Finance ministry, which is worse than the U.S. If you think the Swedish approach to the crisis is a panacea, think again. Link - American Enterprise Inst.
Sweden’s coronavirus results don’t make the case for reopening the American economy | American Enterprise Institute - AEI Last edited by chet2020; 04-27-2020 at 12:32 AM. |
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I think the bottom line is that we don't want to "pass" with it. A vaccine in a year to 18 months will be too late for many people our ages.
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Many. You can start with the common cold (because there are thousands of strains) and HIV (because it exhibits antigenic mutagenicity and mimicry)
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For some reason I can say thank you by clicking on the bottom with a plus sign to some posters and some posts and others I cannot because there is no plus sign. Does anyone know how that works?
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