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The Swedish model was exacerbated for the same reason the NYC was. You can’t put old people with the disease in lock down with other old people. You’ll quickly

• dehrmann 6y ago
  When people criticize Sweden, they usually quote the top-line number, leaving out that Sweden's admitted failures were in protecting the elderly and outreach to at-risk immigrant communities.
• m4rtink 6y ago
  Of course you can't do that - anyone infected needs to be isolated and people who were in contact with them as well. If you want to protect old people (and everyone of us will get old eventually) is to make sure they won't get infected, simple as that. To achieve that, many care homes here locked down much earlier than the state wide lockdown (and in some cases were already in annual flu related lockdown, same thing for many hospitals). In quite a few cases, the care personnel even volunteered to basically camp out at the site to eliminate any possibility of getting the infection in from their homes. This has been quite effective. The few cases where the infection did get in were pretty brutal, which validates the rather drastic steps taken.