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Re: dropdeadfred post# 1047

Saturday, 09/18/2021 10:43:33 PM

Saturday, September 18, 2021 10:43:33 PM

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dropdeadfred, As COVID-19 swept through Italy and other parts of Europe in February and March, most nearby countries instituted strict, or semi-strict, lockdowns. Sweden went a different way. Instead, it embarked upon a strategy of “herd immunity,” hoping that enough healthy people would contract and recover from the virus for life to resume pretty much as normal.

Many experts — and Sweden’s neighbors .. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-pariah-scandinavia.html — judged this experiment a failure. Sweden’s death rate dwarfs that of its neighbors .. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ , and its laissez-faire strategy did little to mitigate the economic damage of the virus, either.

Naturally, this is the model President Trump is now interested in replicating.

The president’s new, trusted adviser on the pandemic is Scott Atlas, a senior fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution who endorses a Sweden-style approach for America that would protect specific vulnerable populations, like those in nursing homes, while largely allowing the coronavirus to spread unchecked through other sectors of society. And his philosophy may at least partially explain several shifts in federal policy over the last few weeks.

Trump’s New Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Copy Sweden Approach
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=158416724

That image of yours is dangerously misleading. How many deaths have you contributed to today?

It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”

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