Sweden's top state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell must feel vindicated now. Tegnell has admitted that Sweden failed to adequately protect people in nursing homes and the elderly and sick. And has said that if he were to do things again, he'd implement a policy that is somewhere in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did. But Sweden didn't turn out to be the absolute disaster that fearmongers thought it would be. Some epidemiologists said that Sweden would have 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. They had 5,744 in a nation of 10.1 million people and the death curve was like 99% crushed or some shit (I'm not exaggerating). Something absurd like that. Back in Apr 10-16 Sweden averaged 99 daily deaths. Now the 7-day rolling average is 1 daily death. So Sweden (10.1 million) is basically at or maybe slightly better than where Ontario is at (14.7 million people) right now. With a much lower unemployment rate. With only voluntary social isolation.
Now Sweden's cumulative death rate is +140% Canada's. However Canada is living in fear of a second wave with massive unemployment and massive deficit spending while Anders, Mats and Ingrid are drinking pints of Carlsberg and laughing their fucking ass off at the rest of the world.
I understand what Sweden did is controversial. Imagine trying to convince the Canadian public that if you open up the economy, COVID-19 deaths in Canada will be 21,443 instead of 8,947. A lot of people won't be able to accept this. After all even in the nasty 2018 flu season (one of the nastiest flu seasons we had in a long time), only 8,511 Canadians died of flu/pneumonia. 21,443 deaths is a lot. Even if Canada learns from Sweden's mistakes and puts in a better effort to protect long term care homes and protect the elderly and sick. Even if Canada may very well catch up to Sweden in the future with a second wave, third wave, etc.
At the end of the day it would take a lot of balls to do what Anders Tegnell did. Anders received death threats.
I'm in contact with some street-involved people and always just avoid physical contact, stay away if I can avoid touching them/stuff/things and give a fistbump instead of a handshake, wash hands and generally act like a non-retard around these types of people who are more likely to be vectors to me, I think that's how I caught it.
It was like a rough flu. The ones that already caught it and died were probably already immunocompromised. I never usually get the flu.
I was already recovered by the time it was even on my RADAR, and before CBC knew what it was.
Sweden's top state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell must feel vindicated now. Tegnell has admitted that Sweden failed to adequately protect people in nursing homes and the elderly and sick. And has said that if he were to do things again, he'd implement a policy that is somewhere in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did. But Sweden didn't turn out to be the absolute disaster that fearmongers thought it would be. Some epidemiologists said that Sweden would have 100,000 COVID-19 deaths. They had 5,744 in a nation of 10.1 million people and the death curve was like 99% crushed or some shit (I'm not exaggerating). Something absurd like that. Back in Apr 10-16 Sweden averaged 99 daily deaths. Now the 7-day rolling average is 1 daily death. So Sweden (10.1 million) is basically at or maybe slightly better than where Ontario is at (14.7 million people) right now. With a much lower unemployment rate. With only voluntary social isolation.
Now Sweden's cumulative death rate is +140% Canada's. However Canada is living in fear of a second wave with massive unemployment and massive deficit spending while Anders, Mats and Ingrid are drinking pints of Carlsberg and laughing their fucking ass off at the rest of the world.
I understand what Sweden did is controversial. Imagine trying to convince the Canadian public that if you open up the economy, COVID-19 deaths in Canada will be 21,443 instead of 8,947. A lot of people won't be able to accept this. After all even in the nasty 2018 flu season (one of the nastiest flu seasons we had in a long time), only 8,511 Canadians died of flu/pneumonia. 21,443 deaths is a lot. Even if Canada learns from Sweden's mistakes and puts in a better effort to protect long term care homes and protect the elderly and sick. Even if Canada may very well catch up to Sweden in the future with a second wave, third wave, etc.
At the end of the day it would take a lot of balls to do what Anders Tegnell did. Anders received death threats.
I'm in contact with some street-involved people and always just avoid physical contact, stay away if I can avoid touching them/stuff/things and give a fistbump instead of a handshake, wash hands and generally act like a non-retard around these types of people who are more likely to be vectors to me, I think that's how I caught it.
It was like a rough flu. The ones that already caught it and died were probably already immunocompromised. I never usually get the flu.
I was already recovered by the time it was even on my RADAR, and before CBC knew what it was.