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The plan might face problems from time and economic perspective. Reaching herd immunity level might take way too long, even years, during which time most other
by HissingMachine 6y ago
The plan might face problems from time and economic perspective. Reaching herd immunity level might take way too long, even years, during which time most other countries are opening back up using mitigation strategies. Sweden meanwhile might be under travel restrictions imposed by other countries to ward off second wave, hindering their economy far longer than other countries.
It really does seem like a gamble, and I don't appreciate governments taking gambles.
- nabla9 6y agoSweden is also using mitigation strategies, just slightly less than other countries.
- HissingMachine 6y agoTo me, it seems that they started to use mitigation strategies because they figured the time/economic variable that I pointed out, and realized the impossibility of their gamble.
- WJW 6y agoCompared to some of the southern countries (where three generations of a family regularly live together in one house), the Swedish population was already fairly distanced. See also https://www.politico.eu/article/social-distance-swedish-style/ https://www.politico.eu/article/social-distance-swedish-styl...