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ooli  ·  1680 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy

I begin to suspect Sweden is right.

One of their premise is that the lock-down is not tenable. And it is not.

In France we already schedule to stop it less than 1 month from now: The 11 May.

At that time, all healthy people will go out, and suddenly give new vehicle for the virus. And we will get another death wave.

The plan of sweden is to let the virus reach healthy people (for whom the death rate is around the one of the flu.. If you're not vaccinated against flu, you are already not afraid of that death rate).. so once it go through most people it cant spread further.

The point being, that you can let the frail and old people go out sooner, since most people will stop been a vehicle earlier, than with the lock-down strategy.

Plus economically it is more sound.

I dont get the backslash for the sweden strategy. As the dude say: the moment the lockdown is stopped, the death rate of other countries will reach Sweden, while Sweden will already have much immunized people. Make perfect sense