And many do not consider it a failure given Sweden’s average death rate since late July and early august has been roughly 3 deaths per day or less. They aren’t forced to stay indoors like people in Melbourne are and they also never shut as many institutions as we did here.
we Can go on debating this but I really only have a few points.
- Hard lockdowns do not work.
- As far as pandemics go, COVID is not very deadly and is generally not fatal for healthy people under the age of 60 or so.
- Masks are not as effective as they are made out to be. Multiple examples from multiple countries where they were mandated and following the mandate, infections continued to rise (I.e.) mask policies did not have an effect on infections.
- Sweden’s death numbers represent their failure to appropriately lock down their aged care. Countries who get this right, don’t get huge death rates. New York is the prime example of perhaps the worst government response around the world. Throwing sick people back into aged care where the virus effectively massacred tens of thousands.
- Young people don’t die from covid. Economies should be open with restrictions limited to aged care and medical facilities. Hospitals never ran out of capacity (like we were warned they would).
There's several problems here:
- the research does say masks are not effective as I have pointed out many times in the past. I have shared many studies showing their efficacy and you ignored them
- no matter how qualified a person is, their opinion does not outweigh research. This is one of the key tenants of the scientific method. Epidemiologists saying "you don't need masks" doesn't trump all the actual research
- long term lockdowns are a problem and they are not supported by science. The research says that lockdowns should be temporary (20 days) but that lockdowns may be needed
- The Swedish method is considered to be a failure. The current lead epidemiologist in Sweden even stated that their methods were a failure
- Hospitals in Italy, China and the UK were all overwhelmed. Sweden got lucky. They hit capacity but never went over it. It's strongly believed that the reason for this is the low population density
I'm not for Victoria's lockdowns. A temporary hard lockdown works. These long term lockdowns don't.
