WHO says Sweden should be world model for coronavirus response

[Anonymous]

It is the only Western country with a reasonable response.

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[Anonymous]

The Western approach to the pandemic(lock downs) is not sustainable and is not science based. We probably won't have a vaccine until the end of 2021. Herd immunity is the only sensible option available.

Sweden's Coronavirus Strategy Will Soon Be the World's



Herd Immunity Is the Only Realistic Option—the Question Is How to Get There Safely



Swedish authorities have not officially declared a goal of reaching herd immunity, which most scientists believe is achieved when more than 60 percent of the population has had the virus. But augmenting immunity is no doubt part of the government's broader strategy—or at least a likely consequence of keeping schools, restaurants, and most businesses open. Anders Tegnell, the chief epidemiologist at Sweden's Public Health Agency, has projected that the city of Stockholm could reach herd immunity as early as this month. Based on updated behavioral assumptions (social-distancing norms are changing how Swedes behave), the Stockholm University mathematician Tom Britton has calculated that 40 percent immunity in the capital could be enough to stop the virus's spread there and that this could happen by mid-June.



Sweden has won praise in some quarters for preserving at least some semblance of economic normalcy and keeping its per capita death rate lower than those of Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. But it has come in for criticism in other quarters for exceeding the per capita death rates of other Nordic countries and in particular, for failing to protect its elderly and immigrant populations. People receiving nursing and elder-care services account for upward of 50 percent of COVID-19 deaths in Sweden, according to Tegnell, in part because many facilities were grievously slow to implement basic protective measures such as mask wearing.



But Swedish authorities have argued that the country's higher death rate will appear comparatively lower in hindsight. Efforts to contain the virus are doomed to fail in many countries, and a large percentage of people will be infected in the end. When much of the world experiences a deadly second wave, Sweden will have the worst of the pandemic behind it.



Lockdowns are simply not sustainable for the amount of time that it will likely take to develop a vaccine. Letting up will reduce economic, social, and political pressures. It may also allow populations to build an immunity that will end up being the least bad way of fighting COVID-19 in the long run. Much about the disease remains poorly understood, but countries that are locked down now could very well face new and even more severe outbreaks down the road. If these countries follow the Swedish path to herd immunity, the total cost of the pandemic will decrease, and it will likely end sooner.

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[Anonymous]

I used to believe lock downs were the best way to cope with this pandemic, but after seeing the damage it has caused, I think it's a very bad idea..



Moderate social distancing, protect vulnerable groups while letting healthy people go to work and school..



And since we don't have a vaccine, some form of herd immunity is inevitable.

[Anonymous]

The reopening measures we have now in Manitoba are what we should have done from the start instead of lock downs.

[Anonymous]

The reopening measures we have now in Manitoba are what we should have done from the start instead of lock downs.

We are moving towards what Sweden is doing now. And hindsight being twenty twenty, that is what we should have did from the beginning.

[Anonymous]

The reopening measures we have now in Manitoba are what we should have done from the start instead of lock downs.

We are moving towards what Sweden is doing now. And hindsight being twenty twenty, that is what we should have did from the beginning.

We can't change the past, but we can and must end all of these deadly lock downs.

[Gaon]

Depression level unemployment levels, deaths from cancelled surgeries, high rates of alcoholism and suicides among healthy people because of lock downs all so healthy people won't get a cough for a week. Sweden has it right, while British Columbia continues with these deadly lock downs.