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Originally Posted by Discombobulated
It was a light touch - they never shut down, they still don't wear masks. At first it looked bad, they had a higher rate of infection and death than other Scandinavian countries, but then it dropped away. So far it is still low. Much lower than western Europe/US, and those countries locked down.
Some people have interpreted this as herd immunity, but very hard to say this, and it does look like cases may be rising again.
This link explains well:
Sweden's gamble | Science |
This was also the model British First Minister defended at the beginning but he wanted to keep elderly and other risk factor group of people locked down for at least six months.
I'm totally confused as to which is the right model to be honest. All I know is that there are people dying and at least in my country politicians are in their own inner wars among them than in following the researches from the experts.
This is part of human misery and I'm very worried. Maybe I'm a dreamer and I expected too much. Nothing have changed here in Spanish land.