The re-opening phases was very bad in many states of the United States mainly because there was no national mandate. Many states, provinces and countries have statistical data about Covid-19 in each phase. They use that data to determine if they were able to proceed to the next phase, pause or go back to a prior level... Some didn't have a phase...they just re-open. It was all about the Re-Opening and not about the Lockdown. Thus, some places did their re-opening right as in accordingly to the CDC guidelines whereas other states did it differently (wrong) as in accordingly to their own guidelines...blindly...without fully understanding that they share borders with other states. Simply, during the re-opening (not during the lockdown) the infections, hospitalization and deaths begin to increase slowly and exploded after each holiday. For example via a covididiot like Jem is that after the Thanksgiving Holiday and when there's a dramatic increase in infections, hospitalizations and deaths... He will convince himself via whatever propaganda that its the "lockdown / shutdown / restrictions that's causing the increases when in reality it was the re-opening and people no longer caring...an example is when someone has a super spreader maskless rally. The small percentage of people that become infected / hospitalized / died after attending a maskless rally or protest is not because of a lockdown / shutdown...its because there was no lockdown as in no national mandate. The latter (protests) more difficult to manage versus a rally. The above example is the best way to explain a difference lockdown and re-opening especially when people are traveling across borders to super spreader events along with something simple as family members from around the state or country coming together for Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to those in the United States. Seriously...keep it only to those that actually live in your home with you...be safe and smart. Those with teenagers away for college and returning home...I keep hearing about most universities provide rapid testing so that students can no if its safe for them to travel home and some universities require students to be tested after returning to campus from Thanksgiving Holiday. wrbtrader
Suddenly, Swedes are ‘very worried’ that the ‘herd immunity’ strategy is no match for COVID https://fortune.com/2020/11/26/sweden-worried-herd-immunity-covid-poll/
Swedes Lose Faith in Covid-19 Strategy With Virus Rampant https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...in-covid-strategy-plunges-as-icu-beds-fill-up Swedish confidence in the nation’s strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic has slumped, with concerns over capacity in the health-care system now almost universal. A poll by DN/Ipsos published on Thursday showed that 82% of Swedes are either “somewhat” or “very worried” as to whether their health-care system can meet the challenge facing it. Confidence in the authorities’ ability to fight the virus sank to 42% of those polled from 55% in October. Meanwhile, 44% of Swedes fear authorities aren’t doing enough to fight the virus, compared with 31% last month. Sweden’s decision to avoid a lockdown has been controversial from the get-go, as it coincided with a considerably higher death rate than in the country’s Nordic neighbors. After a relatively calm summer, daily cases have started to spike and hospitals are filling up. (More at above url)
COVID-19 has dropped life expectancy in Sweden by the biggest amount since 1944, as a top official warns there is 'no signs' of herd immunity https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-sweden-herd-immunity-life-expectancy-2020-11
The Prince of Sweden and his wife Princess Sofia both tested positive for COVID-19, as their country struggles under a brutal second wave of infections https://www.businessinsider.com/pri...-test-positive-covid-19-after-funeral-2020-11 Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and his wife, Princess Sofia, have both tested positive for COVID-19 after showing symptoms of coronavirus infection. The pair attended a funeral with the reigning King of Sweden and other members of the royal family on Friday, and they showed negative test results then. The king, queen, crown princess and her husband have all been tested for the virus since the two infections were discovered. So far, their tests results remain negative.
Sweden's coronavirus plan failed to stop the virus, and a vaccine may not be enough to 'rescue' them, experts warn https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11...ce-with-its-rogue-coronavirus-policy/12922932 Sweden's failed coronavirus herd immunity gamble came at a high cost of lives and the country could still have to implement a lockdown to tackle the spread, experts say. From the start, Sweden's approach to dealing with coronavirus was flawed, according to Professor David Goldsmith, the lead author of a paper published by the UK's Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. In it, Professor Goldsmith examined what went wrong with Sweden's policy and why its case mortality rate is about triple that of its Scandinavian neighbours. And with a severe second wave presently moving through the country, he believes drastic measures need to be undertaken to control the spread. "Sweden, unfortunately, have done the wrong thing in the wrong way," Professor Goldsmith told the ABC. "They thought they were going to get this herd immunity nonsense." While herd immunity has never been confirmed as official policy, Professor Goldsmith was adamant Sweden was hoping enough of its population would develop antibodies that infection rates would start to drop after six to 12 months. "Honestly, there was never a chance of that being a sensible approach," he said. "Nobody has ever tried to control a pandemic or an epidemic by inducing herd immunity. "They deny it now, I know they do, but the evidence is abundantly clear." Measure of antibodies taken in June and July from people in Stockholm, the epicentre of Sweden's first wave, found only about 15 per cent of the population had them. Around this time, the country's case and death rates were dropping. Questions were being asked about whether Sweden had found a decent way to balance the competing priorities of handling the health crisis and its economic impacts. But by August and September, the second wave of COVID-19 was firmly gripping the country. Professor Goldsmith said Sweden should have seen it coming from observing what was happening in the UK, France, Italy and Spain. "What was it about the Swedes that would simply mean they could sit there and expect not to have a second wave of such severity?" he said. "It astonishes me. I think they were caught up in their own bullshit." From the outset, Sweden had three pillars to their coronavirus response, Professor Goldsmith said. Herd immunity, avoiding economic damage and making measures sustainable. But with infection rates soaring to record highs in the second wave, is enough being done? And what do recent announcements about promising vaccine candidates mean for Sweden? The statistics told a story, but did Sweden listen? Sweden has gained international attention for its unorthodox response to the pandemic. It has shunned lockdowns and widespread use of face masks and instead relied on mainly voluntary measures even as the pandemic hit the country increasingly hard. Some of the results of this approach are borne out in simple numbers. There have been 225,560 cases of coronavirus in Sweden, a country of 10 million, and 6,500 people have died. For comparison, in Australia, which has a population of 25 million, there have been 27,854 cases and 907 deaths. Against numbers from large countries like the US, India or Brazil, Sweden's tallies don't seem too bad. But when those case statistics are looked at in another context a different picture emerges. "They say 'yeah, we've got more deaths than Finland and Norway, but we've got fewer deaths than Belgium, Italy, Spain and the UK', sure," Professor Goldsmith said. "Choosing your comparisons is like marking your own homework — it's very easy to get top marks." Chair in Epidemiology at Deakin University, Professor Catherine Bennett, said Sweden's case fatality rate was about 3 per cent, compared to about 1 per cent across the rest of Scandinavia. "That's an extraordinary death rate," she told the ABC. Sweden's COVID-19 death toll per capita is more than 10 times Norway's and nearly five times that of Denmark. Both professors were critical of the low rate of testing in the country. In the early days of the pandemic, Sweden was only testing about 25,000 people at most each day. Throughout the past 10 weeks, that has increased massively. European Centre for Disease Control data shows Sweden carried out a record 254,000 tests in the second week of November. Denmark and Norway, both with roughly half the population of Sweden and much lower infection rates, managed 486,000 and 157,000 tests respectively during that time.
From my friend in Stockholm: “Today we buried our youngest child and my wife’s mother. The lineup to the funeral home was around the block. People are dropping like flies in apartment elevators and in office towers and in grocery stores. There has been a total societal crumble here - the stench from all the dead bodies and the crematoriums running all day and night is horrendous. Whatever you do - stay away from Sweden. The covid situation is basically like what would happen if Ebola married Smallpox.. at time of writing, we have seen an obscene amount of death. 0.065% of our country has perished. We are in a perpetual state of fear as to what will happen to the other 99.935% of us. “
At the moment it is not looking good for Sweden but.. Sweden is still doing far better than the EU... UK, Spain, France, Italy... and gwBe-lying choice of best response to Covid... Germany.. Where are all the doomsday articles on their failures? What is wrong with GWB? Just click on the link to see... https://ourworldindata.org/coronavi...othing=7&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc