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Bill Swartz
1037 Wyndham Dr
York PA 17403

North end of southbound horse

1 posted on 05/23/2020 8:18:42 PM PDT by lightman
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Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

Anyone with 4Chan connections?

This a-hoe needs a doxing he will never forget.

2 posted on 05/23/2020 8:21:18 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

It’s too early to make judgements on Sweden’s approach.
In four or five years we’ll have a better picture.


3 posted on 05/23/2020 8:22:11 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: lightman

100,000 Americans died of the flu in 1969 and a million worldwide.

80,000 Americans died of the flu the winter of 2018.

We didn’t shut down the world then.

Why now?


4 posted on 05/23/2020 8:23:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: lightman

Typical leftist. Lie with confidence and no one will check. Last time I checked, Sweden’s mortality, while higher than the US and many other countries, was about the same as the world average, meaning they are also LOWER than a roughly equal number of nations. So if they’re average, and have been less intrusive, that proves the heavy-handedness didn’t help. Obviously.


5 posted on 05/23/2020 8:24:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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RELATED:

Howls from the Wolf pup on May 10:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3843591/posts


7 posted on 05/23/2020 8:32:59 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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>> [Sweden] had the most COVID-19 deaths per capita in Europe last week.

Really? Current data shows Sweden’s case fatality @ 12% and per-capita @ 38.5 well below its EU neighbors.


8 posted on 05/23/2020 8:39:03 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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To: lightman

Swartz ... this guy again. One of Wolf’s buddies. I guess he is getting paid by Wolf one way or another to write for the York Daily Record since he has been doing it so much lately.


9 posted on 05/23/2020 8:39:33 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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“...He should know that Sweden followed his “herd immunity” approach and had the most COVID-19 deaths per capita in Europe last week....”
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If by “deaths per capital” the misinformed Mr Swatz means the functional equivalent of “death per million” (to be able to adjust the cases to account for population size) then he’s wrong. France, Italy, Spain and the UK have higher deaths per million. If he is so completely wrong about this, why would we think his powers of projection to the future are any better.


11 posted on 05/23/2020 8:56:58 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT.)
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In his op ed, Dr. Pandelidis also leans heavily on a fallacy. He wrongly implies that, because precautions worked, that means precautions weren't necessary.

The author reverts to the reverse fallacy: because the precautions were unnecessary, he wrongly implies that they worked.

Authors 2nd fallacy:

he should know that Sweden followed his “herd immunity” approach and had the most COVID-19 deaths per capita in Europe last week. He should also know that Sweden's case fatality rate is far higher than most other countries.

The author has not demonstrated that Sweden's policy (not strictly a herd immunity policy as alleged) caused a higher case fatality rate. Never mind what percentage of the population gets the virus the relevant question is why was Sweden's death rate among those who actually get the virus greater than its Scandinavian cousins?

To make his case the author has to show us that overloading of hospitals (failure to flatten the curve) caused people to die. He did not do that respecting Sweden but with sleight-of-hand talks about England where both the percentage of population and the case death rate are high. Were the hospitals in England overloaded? He does not say.

Yes, of course the infection rate in the population of Sweden is high but why is the case death rate also high? Why does the latter suggest the former is an improper policy? Yes Sweden's case death rate is higher than its Scandinavian cousins, but it is not higher than its European neighbors.

If the purpose in imposing social distancing is only to flatten the curve to prevent hospitals from being overloaded, are we not all destined to get this virus? How have we saved lives? Have we only prolong the course of the virus at the cost of breaking down our economy and our healthcare system overall? Have we saved lives net or lost lives net? Where, therefore, is the advantage of shutting down the economy to gain nothing in reducing the case death rate?

Unless the author wants to argue that the social distancing regimes that were imposed on the people saves lives because they buy time to develop treatment modalities or an immunity drug, what is the point?


14 posted on 05/23/2020 9:15:36 PM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: lightman

The writer of the article is a b.tch.

Yeah people will die in larger numbers MAYBE if we open up everything.

It’s better than a country of 350 million being destroyed.

And I’m calling anybody that thinks locking down or holding off or standing 6.2 feet apart a B.TCH

I don’t know if the statements about Sweden are true and they are in somewhat worse shape as far as new cases and deaths go.

BUT I DO KNOW THEY STILL HAVE AN ECONOMY.

And the number of lives that saved DWARFS this Bull### faggot virus whose victims’ averages ages are 175


16 posted on 05/23/2020 9:25:42 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals N racists dont point ftingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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His address is the richest, old money neighborhood, where those fancying themselves aristocrats think they know what is best for we mere proles.


39 posted on 05/24/2020 4:34:47 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: lightman

These buttholes are really, really stupid. And they demand we be more stupid.


59 posted on 05/24/2020 7:47:15 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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