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On Friday, Tegnell won a very public victory against the WHO, after lambasting the organization for making a “total mistake.” The WHO had initially placed Sweden in a group of 11 countries where it said “accelerated transmission has led to very significant resurgence that, if left unchecked, will push health systems to the brink.”
But the WHO then amended its assessment, and said Swedish contagion rates are in fact “stable.”It linked the high number of cases to an increase in testing.
William Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s School of Public Health in Boston, said “Sweden’s policy is unusual in that it took a much less stringent approach to preventing transmission, but interestingly it implemented those measures at a very early stage in the pandemic, before large amounts of community spread had occurred.”
“Sweden’s approach may be sustainable in ways other countries’ have not proven to be,” according to Hanage. “It should be noted that lockdowns are a response to an imminent surge into health care, with the goal of stopping as many transmission chains as quickly as possible. The full accounting will only be possible after the pandemic.”
After further review in Sweden, which nearly avoided COVID-induced lockdown altogether, it turned out that increases in the numbers of cases over time was linked to increased frequency/coverage of TESTING, not actual increases in infection rates.
originally posted by: Halfswede
This is part of what people don't understand about 'flatten the curve'. There are the same number of people with covid in a flattened vs. not flattened curve, just that they are spread out over time in the flattened.
It is just that you run some risk of other deaths due to overwhelmed health care systems in some cases/cities/countries if nothing was done. In Sweden, they deemed that they could handle the load and their deaths per day and hospitalizations per day are showing it to be successful without locking everyone down and breaking their economy. school systems etc.
Georgia in the US is another example. They literally said the governor would have genocide on his hands. That was the beginning of May.
originally posted by: KnoxMSP
a reply to: teapot
Almost impossible to find death rates for influenza or RSV in my area. I can find covid deaths in seconds. Once I finally found the data I saw a weird anomaly. Almost all cases of death from flu or RSV stopped, or dropped sharply back in March, yet the death rate for covid stayed flat. Almost like they were salting their data for covid with their cases of influenza and RSV.
originally posted by: Middleoftheroad
After further review in Sweden, which nearly avoided COVID-induced lockdown altogether, it turned out that increases in the numbers of cases over time was linked to increased frequency/coverage of TESTING, not actual increases in infection rates.
Been saying this since the very beginning. If they tested everyone, Covid19 would be just as deadly as the flu if not a little safer. I actually know people that died from the flu tied with other complications, but can't even name a person I know that has gotten Covid19. I think the biggest issue is politicians are scared to admit it after killing our jobs and economies.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened
What many of the fearful are too ignorant to understand is there is no stopping a virus that spread to 186 countries in a matter of months.
There was never any way to eliminate the threat from the CCP virus. There are only a few ways to eliminate the threat. A cure, a vaccine or herd immunity.
The number of deaths by suicide, drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence have skyrocketed. The lockdowns will go down as worse than the disease itself. We do not have a support system in place to sustain a lockdown without major negative consequences to the life and prosperity of the middle and lower classes.
I congratulate Sweden for being one of the only countries to take a logical approach from the beginning.
People die of new diseases, it’s an unfortunate fact of life. Some slower spreading diseases may be able to be contained and eliminated. But anything spreading as fast as the CCP virus is going to make it’s way through the population regardless of what we do.
Or is there some inherent difference between how Sweden managed the crisis and how the US managed it
1. According to the latest immunological and serological studies, the overall lethality of Covid-19 (IFR) is about 0.1% and thus in the range of a strong seasonal influenza (flu).
2. In countries like the US, the UK, and also Sweden (without a lockdown), overall mortality since the beginning of the year is in the range of a strong influenza season; in countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland, overall mortality is in the range of a mild influenza season.
3. Even in global “hotspots”, the risk of death for the general population of school and working age is typically in the range of a daily car ride to work. The risk was initially overestimated because many people with only mild or no symptoms were not taken into account.
4. Up to 80% of all test-positive persons remain symptom-free. Even among 70-79 year olds, about 60% remain symptom-free. Over 95% of all persons develop at most moderate symptoms.
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8. Up to 30% of all additional deaths may have been caused not by Covid19, but by the effects of the lockdown, panic and fear. For example, the treatment of heart attacks and strokes decreased by up to 60% because many patients no longer dared to go to hospital.
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17. There is also no scientific evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in healthy or asymptomatic individuals. On the contrary, experts warn that such masks interfere with normal breathing and may become “germ carriers”. Leading doctors called them a “media hype” and “ridiculous”.
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California Civil Rights Attorney Leigh Dundas published a video on Facebook this week to show the devastating consequences of isolating children and forcing them to practice “social distancing” at places like school.
Here are some lesser known facts about social distancing and isolation:
• It was developed 70 years ago by the CIA to break down enemies of state.
• It is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day AND being an alcoholic.
• It doubles the risk of death, and destroys the part of the brain responsible for learning.
She pointed out that according to the statistics and the CDC:
• A child’s risk of dying from COVID is 0.0%, per the CDC.
• No child has passed on COVID to a family member or third party (they do not transmit).