Sweden the only country with Correct Approach to CVD-19

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I'm all for a more nuanced discussion.

"Diving for herd immunity" by letting people freely contract covid is based on an assumption that - similarily to chicken pox - one gets immunity after contracting the disease and recovering.
This assumption is not backed by any research results, it's just an assumption.
But what if post-infection immunity lasts only e.g. one-two months?
In that case, you will never get 80% of the population immune. In that case, you will never get herd immunity. Just like there is no herd immunity to common cold. In that case, mitigation and treatments are the way to go - and adaptation on the social and economical level.

The vast majority of people who were tested in NYC showed symptoms.

So far, according to the results of antibody tests, 1 in 5 people had COVID in NYC.

The USA doesn't have the data it needs. People who thought they had it were turned away and told to assume they had it. So they have no way of knowing if they are carriers are not. What are they suppose to do now? Stay in quarantine forever?

Only people who were rather severely symptomatic were tested in NYC until recently. No symptoms, no test. Mild symptoms, no test.

We will get closer to a true assessment as to actual exposure here when antibody tests become more common. Up to 40% of those tested for antibodies came up positive in some NYC zip codes. The overall rate, so far, is 19.9% in the city. Less in less densely-populated zip codes, though always over 10%.

I’m taking an antibody test 5/28.

Sweden has the correct approach? Seriously? Not to sound smug, but...

Hello from Taiwan.

My argument is you need a balanced approach that prevents needless jobs losses and delays in our children's education (so its not just financial)

So far the biggest transmission vectors have been cruise ships, aeroplanes and public transport.....governments could have been more creative in stopping these vectors.

In the US Trump was more worried about building a wall to stop Mexicans yet he dawdled aimlessly for months when he should have put a wall against Chinese entering the US.

Most of the COVID in NYC came from Europe.

I think that Japanese culture allows for better self isolation practices without the need for heavy handed government intervention. They have vending machines everywhere. And automated restaurants without human servers. You can buy healthy pre-made and packaged meals from convenience stores.
Japan has "free" healthcare available to its citizens, foreigners, and expatriates.

Studying Japan isn't going to help much. The gap between Japan and other countries is just too great.

Testing numbers may not be as important as being able to test everyone who needs it quickly and accurately.
At the beginning of an outbreak, you only need to be able to test a few people, if you can trace who they became in contact with.

Mmhmm.. their approach is so correct that their death rate per capita is nearly double that of the USA’s annnnd they’re so far away from achieving herd immunity that they’re never going to get there without a Very High death toll. Like this article says, their herd immunity strategy completely backfired:

https://www.kcra.com/article/the-price- ... s/32656814

I wonder if the OP of this thread is rethinking his opinion as expressed in the thread title?

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

^ it didn't age well, did it?


why is sweden so intent on completely destroying themselves?