Annnnnnnnd what about Sweden now?
WHO: Sweden, which avoided mass coronavirus lockdowns, should be 'model' for the world
“I think if we are to reach a new normal, I think in many ways Sweden represents a future model of -- if we wish to get back to a society in which we don’t have lockdowns," Dr. Mike Ryan said while speaking to reporters from Geneva.
Nice to see WHO finally coming around. Typically, as shown with China, they are 6 weeks behind again.
The whole Sweden thing baffles me. They currently (according to the Worldometer statistics site) have 21,092 confirmed cases of the corona virus, and 2,586 deaths. That's 12.2 %. The US has 1,095,0234 confirmed cases, and 63,856 deaths -- about 5.8%. It appears to me that Sweden just decided to let its old people die, which is a pretty harsh decision. The death rate is far, far lower in the other three Scandinavian countries, and this herd immunity thing is not exactly happening in Sweden. Even if they have 50 times the number of people infected as the confirmed number, that would be less than 10 percent of their population. They need something like 60-70 percent before they even start to get herd immunity. And they probably don't have 50 times the confirmed number, because they seem proud of their testing program. I think Sweden royally screwed the pooch, and now they're all doing the bureaucratic dance to try to convince people otherwise, even in the face of the numbers.
The US deaths are now higher than the worst flu season in the past ten years, and it took about a month and a half to get there.
