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Swedens approach is working. Current number of deaths is still too low to warrant harsher measures and deaths per day has been going down for weeks now. 300 de
by username90 7y ago
Swedens approach is working. Current number of deaths is still too low to warrant harsher measures and deaths per day has been going down for weeks now.
300 deaths per million isn't that many really. That means 3000 persons per death, significantly hurting 3000 persons quality of life for several months just to save a single life which 90% of the time is above 70 and therefore doesn't have many years left to live isn't worth it. If locking down 3000 persons for 3 months makes everyone who died live 10 years longer then we say that 75 years of lockdown is worth 1 year of life. So a person would happily spend almost their entire life (75 years) in lockdown just to live one year longer. I don't believe that at all, nobody would make that choice. Just quitting smoking would save way more with way less effort.
And that example was with 10 years per death, most who are dying were already on their deaths door with less time left than that. Also we assumed everyone would survive if we did lock down, which is very unlikely.