mjr
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I included Sweden in the graph I posted earlier. Exploring the data makes me suspect that they've not really started the second wave yet, after a first wave that took about two months longer to pass than here. They may just be bumping along a higher interwave baseline level than here, possibly due to Sweden's supposed constitutional inability to impose anything much tighter than what the UK had for the week before the main lockdown.
There's also no sign of herd immunity yet in countries that have had far higher case densitites than Sweden, such as the US and Brazil, which appear to be having prolonged first waves still.
Proven, except for all the evidence of first waves being reduced. It's more difficult to see whether the so-called "local lockdowns" are working, but that may be for a variety of reasons, including locking down the wrong things, lower compliance or confounding actions like migrating students into halls of residence.
I hope you're right, but time will tell.
So? Is anyone who lives past about 80 expendable to you?
I seriously doubt that it produced no deaths. Presumably you mean that none of the students died quickly from it? But what about those in their cities who they infected and what about long-term affects on those students? In the UK, having caught Asian flu and Hong Kong flu when young is still a detectable factor in health and deaths.
Only if by "great to see" you hate people and want to see more of your countrymen die. It gives me no confidence that this country has the stomach for the fight and to take even the relatively small steps to master this disease until vaccines are available. I predict less mask-wearing, more space-invaders and wider infection if this dodgy view keeps getting the oxygen of publicity in the press.
