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I find this paper very undesirable, outrageous and borderline conspirational. > "There are many experts in epidemiology and virology who are highly critical of
by flr03 7y ago
I find this paper very undesirable, outrageous and borderline conspirational.
> "There are many experts in epidemiology and virology who are highly critical of the lockdown strategy. Few are willing to talk on record."
I mean that's a pretty easy statement to make. Surely if nobody speaks those ideas can't be scientifically challenged.
> "This Swedish exceptionalism is about principle, not epidemiology."
The lockdown strategy is very country dependant, depends on how quickly the infection spread, how much the health system can cope with. There is no principle in that. Some countries are really struggling now and Sweden would do exactly the same in these situation.
There is a certain "show off" attitude in this article which is highly disrespectful in regard of the situation elsewhere.
- cc81 7y agoAnd I don't think it reflects the sentiment here in Sweden either, there is a lot of internal critique and a lot of people want harsher methods (regardless if it actually does anything). Sweden have rising deaths and will be hit hard like many countries and we have some of the lowest amount of ICU beds per million inhabitants in Europe, they are of course trying to build out but have problem staffing them as well. I don't think Sweden will land on a low death toll but the question will be if a more complete shutdown would have helped.
- cpach 7y ago“we have some of the lowest amount of ICU beds per million inhabitants in Europe” Yep, that really sucks and for me that is more scary than the harshness (or lack of harsness if you will) in the imposed restrictions. AFAIK, after the cold war we got rid of most of our field hospitals that we had. [Edited to add comment about field hospitals]