Sweden and the US have ballsed up Corona response

Well, New Zealand will likely be announcing virus elimination on June 15th.

www.smh.com.au...

And they will be entirely rolling back restrictions as a result, keeping only the international border quarantines in place. Their strict lockdown has saved many lives, and now allows a return to normal domestic business.

originally posted by: DanDanDat

originally posted by: DoctorBluechip
John hopkins
Compare these graphs of the ten most affected countries , covering new case numbers day by day.
Ok , so what the stats graphs should be looking like is a sharp mountain peak , and does for the other countries ,

but doesn't for Sweden or the USA .

It's because you aren't comparing Apples to Apples.

coronavirus.jhu.edu...

This looks like a sharp mountain peak to me.

coronavirus.jhu.edu...

Here too

coronavirus.jhu.edu...

Another mountain peak ...

I've noticed much of the media is shifting to showing cumulative case increase, which always goes up.

What people should be focused on is deaths per day. It is the only indicator that can't be hidden or obfuscated with testing rate or efficacy (although it can be manipulated by cause).

Deaths per day peaked several weeks back pretty much everywhere and has declined significantly.



www.worldometers.info...

originally posted by: JesperA
Also, our numbers are wrong, our government prevented/refuse widespread corona testing so we don't know how many cases we really have, it's higher than the official number thats for sure

OF course it is. This virus is extremely contagious. Just not all that dangerous.

Why would any sane person prefer this scenario?

Because social distancing/lockdowns is not how you manage extremely contagious viruses. That is how you handle extremely deadly but slowly spreading things like Ebola.