Sweden Is Victorious

[Ethereal]

"Has Sweden's coronavirus strategy failed?"

By the looks of it, Sweden's strategy is the only one that hasn't failed...

[skepticalmike]

Sweden's death rate has totally bottomed out. And the number of cases is also coming down.

Sweden has obviously reached herd immunity.

And no disaster befell them. The hysterics were wrong about everything. The lockdowns were absolutely not necessary.

No, the low number of daily cases and deaths in July were not evidence that Sweden was victorious and had achieved herd immunity. Sweden has a population of 10.1 million so multiply the numbers

on the graphs below by 33 to get a fair comparison with the U.S. - the worse coronavirus record of any country in the world.

Sweden limited public gatherings to a maximum of 8 in November and banned the serving of alcohol after 10:00 P.M. in bars and restaurants. Their approach has been to issue mostly voluntary

guidelines. Now, Sweden is rethinking that light-touch approach. I can understand the desire for personal freedom but that comes at a cost.


https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...us-second-wave
"This week, the Swedish government proposed a measure to give authorities more sweeping powers to close down shops, restaurants, malls, gyms, banquet halls and other gathering places — a step it avoided taking until now." Even if this measure is approved it won't go into effect until the middle of March.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-cases.html

Sweden is nearing its intensive care limit amid spiralling Covid cases and may be forced to ask its Nordic neighbours for help, top physician warns

• Sweden has been hit hard by coronavirus second wave, after shunning lockdown
• Stockholm intensive care units are at 99 per cent capacity, with seven beds left
• Top medic says neighbouring nations, which used lockdowns, may need to help
• Sweden has suffered a total of 312,000 cases of the virus and 7,000 deaths, while Finland has seen just 30,000 cases and 400 deaths