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Maybe your goal was to "just" flatten the curve which, even if you don't overwhelm hospitals, still leaves a lot of people dead or with permanent damage. Others
by tsbinz 6y ago
Maybe your goal was to "just" flatten the curve which, even if you don't overwhelm hospitals, still leaves a lot of people dead or with permanent damage. Others think the best strategy is (and some other countries' stated goal was) to push cases down to a number where containment strategies (tracing contacts and wiping out infection chains) work again. Some countries got too lax after the lockdown and let cases rise above tracing capabilities again, in other countries that still works.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoBut you’re pretending like all people are equally vulnerable to the virus. What if Sweden had not ducked up their nursing home response? A lot of illnesses leave people dead or with serious damage. Why Lockdown for only COVID then?
- alexanderchr 6y agoSweden's problem was not "ducking" up its nursing home response, this has been debunked over and over. The problem was wide-scale community spread, making spread to nursing homes inevitable. As a data point, Norway's nursing homes were actually hit harder proportional to the total number of deaths, but as a country they got away with 1/10 per capita deaths of Sweden thanks to limiting community spread.
- ulisesrmzroche 6y agoSpreading to nursing home doesn't have to be inevitable. Swedish government has admitted they could have handled this a lot better. I think this time around they will not duck it up again, making the strategy look even better