Posted on 05/10/2020 11:35:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the worldwide campaign to stamp out death and illness from the coronavirus pandemic, Sweden is clearly an outlier.
Theres no lockdown in Sweden. Its bars, restaurants and even nightclubs have not been closed since COVID-19 first reached its shores on Jan. 31. Elementary and middle schools remain open, though high schools and universities now rely on distance learning.
There are no government orders to wear masks or socially distance, though the latter is recommended and most citizens have voluntarily complied. In fact, voluntary compliance and individual responsibility is at the heart of Swedens strategy to slow the spread of the virus.
Its approach is not completely hands off, however. Sweden has banned gatherings of 50 or more people and visits to nursing homes, where about half of its COVID-19 deaths have occurred. It has encouraged people to work at home if possible.
The countrys soft approach was devised by scientists and backed by the government, even though not all of Swedens virologists and immunologists are convinced it is on the right path. Although Sweden has been widely condemned around the world for the strategy, its own citizens largely embrace it.
So how are things working out?
The number of COVID-19 cases and related deaths has been higher in Sweden compared to its Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland, which both imposed complete lockdowns. As of Friday, May 8, Sweden had recorded 25,265 cases of the coronavirus and 3,175 deaths for a population of about 10.2 million. Norway, with about half the population, has 8,055 cases and 218 deaths, while Finland (population 5.5 million) has 5,738 cases and 260 deaths.
Dr. Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist who devised the countrys coronavirus response, talked about Swedens experience and the lessons learned during a webinar
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
10 POINTS TO LEARN ABOUT SWEDEN’s STRATEGY ( CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE DETAILS ):
1. Sweden caught the virus early, and started testing early
2. Higher infection and fatality rates, especially among the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions are cause for concern
3. Achieving herd immunity is not Swedens goal
4. We dont know how long this immunity will last
5. Wearing masks in public is not mandatory
6. There is no financial incentive for sick people in Sweden to go to work
7. Why younger children still attend school, while high school and college students do not
8. The pandemic has disproportionately affected migrant communities
9. Disinformation has not been a huge problem
10. Physical distancing is a critical part of keeping the economy open
Everything you said is a recipe for weakening people’s immune systems.
Where did you do your residency, doctor?
Sweden’s stats are hard to interpret because it looks like their CV reporting process largely shuts down on weekends. Still, it looks like their overall trend is at least as good as - maybe better than - ours, though not as good as most of Europe.
Theres no lockdown in Sweden. Its bars, restaurants and even nightclubs have not been closed since COVID-19 first reached its shores on Jan. 31. Elementary and middle schools remain open, though high schools and universities now rely on distance learning. There are no government orders to wear masks or socially distance, though the latter is recommended... Sweden has banned gatherings of 50 or more people and visits to nursing homes, where about half of its COVID-19 deaths have occurred. It has encouraged people to work at home if possible.
RE: it looks like their overall trend is at least as good as - maybe better than - ours, though not as good as most of Europe.
OK, the rest of Europe locks down and isolates its people from exposure to the virus and the curve flattens for now. What next? What happens if EU inter-nation travel starts again? Will the virus magically disappear?
Same question applies to Australia and New Zealand.
And the entire target population having the tb vaccine
And shuttering all the Confucius Institutes
Their trends look pretty good even counting slow reporting on weekends.
Here is their site.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa
Everything you said is a recipe for weakening peoples immune systems.
Where did you do your residency, doctor?
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Why are you directing your question at me? I am just enumerating the points made by Dr. Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist of Sweden.
Ask him and tell him that he’s wrong and ask him where he had his residency, not me.
To make it easy for you, I’ll cite his medical background from Wikipedia:
Tegnell was born in Uppsala. He became a licensed physician at Lund University in 1985, subsequently interning at the county hospital in Östersund, and later specialised in infectious disease at Linköping University Hospital.
In that capacity, in 1990 he treated the first patient in Sweden with a viral hemorrhagic fever, believed to be a case to be either the Ebola or the Marburg virus disease.
From 1990 to 1993 he worked for the WHO in Laos to create vaccination programs.
Tegnell obtained a PhD in Medicine from Linköping University in 2003 and a MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004.
He worked at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet) 20042005 and the National Board of Health and Welfare from 2005,[8] 2010 to 2012 serving as head of the Department for Knowledge-Based Policy.
He was department head at the Institute for Communicable Disease Control 20122013. Since 2013 he is the State Epidemiologist of Sweden, first at the Institute for Communicable Disease Control, which in 2014 became part of the Public Health Agency of Sweden.
Anders Tegnell was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences in 2005. His inaugural lecture was on the effect of pandemics on society
“Controversial”
Slanted headline.
It’ll be years before we know if Sweden’s approach was better, worse, or the same as the rest of Europe’s.
The most important success, so far, has been the lack of political posturing regarding public health measures, which has been so damaging here in the US.
But understanding the outcome will just have to wait until the results are in.
On the way home my child and I collected a few rocks to paint and then add them to the children's art project...
RE: Sweden’s death rate due to Covid-19 is 3225. Denmark, Norway & Finland combined have a death total of 1011.
Sweden’s experiment is definitely flawed.
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What happens when Sweden’s Nordic neighbors OPEN UP their economy? Are they going to permanently shut their countries off from outside travel? It’s a very important question because they can’t shut down permanently.
By the way, when Sweden went ahead with this strategy, Worldwide experts predicted that it would have 40,000 COVID-19 deaths by May 1,2020.
The actual number on May 1 was 2,769.
Faith in personal responsibility is not needed to adopt the Swedish approach. You can believe the data that has been reported here but not on CNN, which shows: (1) The disease is nowhere near as fatal as the plagues of yore, except for older people with preexisting conditions. (2) There has been much false attribution of death to the disease alone. And (3) there is good reason to believe that people getting the virus without symptoms, or getting symptoms that were not reported, have not been included in the fatality percentage.
Dial up an expert on the immune system, George Carlin, if you want to know the truth! ;)
Sweden wont get the second wave of infection since its citizens aren’t in hiding like the rest of us.
The final numbers, after this all is over....will tell us a lot.
Sweden had some early cases that arrived from other nations, but community spread didn’t start until middle of March.
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