I can agree with everything you said. I’m not on the Sweden bandwagon though.
Have you seen the provisional death stats on teh CDC site?
Covid only deaths are running less than pneumonia only deaths since Feb 1.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
show us Sweden’s RUNAWAY EXPONENTIAL CURVE, NYT.
with all the anti-Sweden-approach stuff coming from the FakeNewsMSM daily, you would think they actually cared about people in Sweden dying (not just the “migrants” as the Times, BBC etc keep mentioning).
no, they cannot stand Sweden, with it’s milder restrictions, being a potential control group, which epidemiologists & statisticians can study post-covid.
While local stats might be useful I’m beginning to become quite skeptical of national stats. Even here, we’re counting deaths as COVID which aren’t. Elsewhere, I just don’t trust the numbers at all. Looking at cases and deaths per 1M people the numbers are all over the place.
I don’t believe there’s any uniformity on how they’re counted.
Yeah, another way of saying that is that Covid-19 is about as lethal as a typical pneumonia year.
Remind me the last time we shut down the nation, lost $7 trillion in wealth, added $5 trillion to the National Debt, catalyzed tens of thousands of business bankruptcies and put 33 million people out of work.
Right. Never.
I don’t think the shut down was a bad idea during the first 30 days when we had no idea what we were dealing with. Now that we know we are not dealing with something like Small Pox or Cholera, but something on the order of a typical winter flu bug, the entire nation should be brought back to normal, unmasked, back to work, back to school and open, and those people at extreme risk such as the very old, people with lung disease, heart disease, and obesity, should voluntarily practice social distancing and wear masks for their own protection.
A month in, we should have acknowledged that Covid 19 was not that much more dangerous than the common flu bugs or pneumonia, and opened everything up.
It is always tragic when people die. People die to the flu. People die to pneumonia. Poeople die to Covid 19. What’s the difference? You don’t collapse a national economy, soar National Debt, and destroy the savings and livelihoods of millions of small business owners for it.
This is not the Black Death we are talking about here.
I still haven’t seen well examined context for the CDC data about pneumonia to really understand what’s driving the numbers and what they mean.
In any case, what’s becoming clear is that COVID-19 is a tale of two cases: either you’re overall pretty healthy and COVID-19 doesn’t have much of any impact on you, or you have some underlying conditions and COVID-19 kills you. In other words, if you have any weakness in your body’s ability to fight it, a COVID-19 infection can very easily become deadly. If you’re older, obese, malnourished, or have some other sickness or medical problem, COVID-19 can be a major problem for you. If you’re pretty healthy, it’s probably no big deal for you. Problem is, we have a lot of unhealthy Americans and I worry for them.
‘I’m not on the Sweden bandwagon though.’
gee, really...? who knew...? you’re giddy running all your numbers about Sweden’s incompetence, who’d have thought you weren’t a fan...?
The more actual data I see, the more it looks like, despite being mocked here relentlessly, the ‘flubros’ were absolutely correct.