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Sweden has 2x the projected per capita death rate of the US from the virus. I think saving 135k lives are a substantial consideration for action.
by maybenot2231 6y ago
Sweden has 2x the projected per capita death rate of the US from the virus. I think saving 135k lives are a substantial consideration for action.
- icelancer 6y agoIt's not over yet. Sweden's idea is the deaths under the curve are likely to be the same everywhere for the next 12-18 months, so they are frontloading them without crashing the domestic industries while trying to keep hospitals from being overloaded. The strategy can't be judged for quite some time.
- haakonhr 6y agoSo far it seems like that hasn't panned out as Sweden is suffering from the same economic downturn as its neighbors. See for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden-has-avoided-a-coronavirus-lockdown-its-economy-is-hurting-anyway-11588870062 https://www.wsj.com/articles/sweden-has-avoided-a-coronaviru...
- centimeter 6y ago“Lives” are not fungible. Covid almost exclusively kills people who were very close to death anyway - look at the age and comorbidity data. It’s very clear. If anything, the numbers are absurdly inflated because people are dying with covid rather than from covid. It’s abundantly clear that the US’s approach will cause more net long term suffering than Sweden’s approach. It looks like the increase in overdose and suicide deaths among younger people is already on track to destroy way more life-years than the most generous attributions to covid.