Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus?

[BOP]

Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus? | National Review

Unlike other countries, it has so far avoided both isolation and economic ruin.

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This is, in fact, the first time we have quarantined healthy people rather than quarantining the sick and vulnerable. As Fredrik Erixon, the director of the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels, wrote in The Spectator (U.K.) last week: “The theory of lockdown, after all, is pretty niche, deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested. It’s not Sweden that’s conducting a mass experiment. It’s everyone else.”

 

[Kyle]

The only ones doing the right thing.

 

[GURPS]

The population is ONLY 10 million ....... 8.3 Million along live in NYC

 

[phreddyp]

The population is ONLY 10 million ....... 8.3 Million along live in NYC

So what is your point Charlie ?

 

[Hijinx]

Quarantine the cities,and leave us rural folks alone.

 

[GURPS]

Scale .... what works for a country with a population of 10 million does mean that same solution will work for a population of 360 million

 

[phreddyp]

Scale .... what works for a country with a population of 10 million does mean that same solution will work for a population of 360 million

Really 10 million in a country the size of approx. California vs 360 million in the whole United States I'm flabbergasted Charlie !

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Really 10 million in a country the size of approx. California vs 360 million in the whole United States I'm flabbergasted Charlie !

To be fair there are more than 10 million in the LA metro area.

 

[GURPS]

Really 10 million in a country the size of approx. California vs 360 million in the whole United States I'm flabbergasted Charlie !

GFYS ... and your sarcastic nonsense

 

[BOP]

Scale .... what works for a country with a population of 10 million does mean that same solution will work for a population of 360 million

I'll have to email my cousin, who lives in Sweden, but I'll bet the number of people who live in the cities verses those who live in the more rural areas are roughly the same in both countries. He'll probably know, since he came here back in the day to go to college.

 

[itsbob]

I'll have to email my cousin, who lives in Sweden, but I'll bet the number of people who live in the cities verses those who live in the more rural areas are roughly the same in both countries. He'll probably know, since he came here back in the day to go to college.

Does he live in St Olaf?

 

[BOP]

Does he live in St Olaf?

No, but he's old enough to have dated Betty White.

 

[phreddyp]

GFYS ... and your sarcastic nonsense

Sorry Charlie !

 

[Tech]

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

From this site and extrapolate MD population to match Sweden population, their infection numbers are almost twice ours and fatalities are triple.

 

[WingsOfGold]

This pretty much sums up their largest city. The metro area is far less populated than Balto/Wash and it consist of several islands. inshort FAR EASIER to defend than most any large area here.

Stockholm (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈstɔ̂kː(h)ɔlm] ( listen))[8] is the capital and most populous urban area of Sweden. 972,647 people live in the municipality,[9] approximately 1.6 million in the urban area,[5] and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area.[10] The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago.