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-Mark Twain.
End the Lockdown
- Thread starter Walter
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Make up your mind as to what the issue is. You're against closing the liquor stores because prohibition doesn't work, or because of the withdrawl symptoms of the alcoholics. Which is it.
After 6 months without lockdown, Sweden's COVID-19 deaths, infections bottom out
Open schools, little mask usage, few restrictions have flouted much of the world's response.
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...no-lockdown-swedish-covid-deaths-bottomed-out
Good on the Swedes.
Open schools, little mask usage, few restrictions have flouted much of the world's response.
https://justthenews.com/politics-po...no-lockdown-swedish-covid-deaths-bottomed-out
Good on the Swedes.
What will be health consequences in the longer term in crippling the economy and losing all those jobs and businesses not to mention the crushing debt left behind and the resulting cutting of social services?
Sweden did not experience the apocalyptic fatality rates and hospital overloading that 'the experts' assured us would happen
OK, then, only to those who don't drink, don't smoke, eat right, and exercise daily.
Those who "fail to live up to gerryh's standards of proper lifestyle," if "moral" makes you uncomfortable.
You are assuming this, no one can state conclusively what will or won't happen.
It didn't back fire.
Where are all the covid deaths?... Hospitals in Sweden being overloaded and people dying in the streets?
Didn't happen, so exactly what back fired?
Sweden, by many measures, did the worst of the Scandanavian countries.
By the way, is "people dying in the streets" the standard for public-health action in Canada?
Sweden did have higher rates however, they pale in comparison to the projected rates of hospitalization and fatalities.... For example, the Imperial College that released their projections stated that Canada would see between 300k and 350k fatalities from covid... we're around 9,000 today (mostly elderly or had pre-existing health issues)
That said, I suspect that Sweden will see a benefit relative to the longer term effects on mental/physical health that will result from the differential approach they took... Obviously these are my thoughts but time will tell.
PS - folks dying in the streets is the anthem for the rabid public healthcare exclusively demographic.
Lockdowns Never Again: Sweden Was Right, and We Were Wrong
https://www.americanthinker.com/art...again_sweden_was_right_and_we_were_wrong.html
Yep.
https://www.americanthinker.com/art...again_sweden_was_right_and_we_were_wrong.html
Yep.
I want to see the deaths per 1,000,000 stats from COVID as well as the recovered with complications per million across the same countries to determine my opinion. The issue has never been the getting the virus. Its the cases that go to the ICU or deaths.
It is for the paranoid. If you look at the recent spate of ODs in BC it has some merit.
One of the oddities I have noticed about the pandemic of paranoia is that it seems to cross party lines. There are maskers/antimaskers and vaxer/antivaxers on both ends of the political spectrum. I am sort of middle of the road on both. Since I am accustomed to wearing a mask on FR calls when required I know there are times when it is good, but they need to be used properly. Most are not. Same for vaccines. Not against them but I would most certainly not rush out and take on the day it is invented. I want to see long term effects first.
250/million so 250 * 37.5 million = 9,375.
It does make an interesting cost benefit analysis. Depends on how much value you place on 9,375 human lives.