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Shaggy said:
Sweden going to have an Investigation into their failed attempt at herd immunity. High death toll per capita and a bigger reduction In their economy than some neighbors.

www.yahoo.com

Sweden sees high COVID-19 fatality rate after forgoing lockdown

Sweden pursued a policy of herd immunity and refused to implement a coronavirus lockdown. Some 5,572 people have since died from the disease, one of the deadliest outbreaks in the world. Public opinion has turned against the government, which has now launched an investigation in to the nation's...
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What's the survival rate? I'm sure it's close to 98%.
 
CoolNights said:
What's the survival rate? I'm sure it's close to 98%.
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The CDC estimated fatality rate is 0.26%, so that would put the survival rate at 99.74%. It may indeed be as low as 99.5% in reality as 0.26% seems kind of low to me to be honest, but it’s also heavily stratified by age, where the fatality rate for a healthy 20-something is basically zero whereas it is probably 10%+ for someone over the age of 80 with health issues.

If this had a 2% fatality rate, that would be a very bad thing. Many millions would die in this country alone.

Sweden’s CFR is over 7%, but that’s far higher than the true fatality rate because of a lack of testing and mild/asymptomatic cases. It’s possible their true fatality rate is higher than ours because they got hit earlier when treatments weren’t as well developed, though. But 7% is still far too high for plausibility.
 
weatherfide said:
Yahoo news is check-out aisle, National Inquirer level integrity, so I will wait to see another source, thank you.
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Learn the difference between a search engine and an actual news agency. Yahoo wasthe search engine.....look atthat little header at the top and it says CBS news.
 
EmersonGA said:
With schools getting pushed back more and more people will be extending summer. Kids can go remotely while at the beach.
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The remote schooling doesn't work very well. Some kids are better at it than others. The extroverts in my family really struggled with it. Some families with one working parent can't even do it. With 70% of black families being led by the mother only, for instance, it really hits some demographics harder than others.

We need to open schools in the fall.
 
CoolNights said:
Wow, great numbers. Thanks for the info.
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That should put this hole issue to bed! Survival rate is even higher for people under 65. The general public doesn't need to do anything special for a virus with a 99.74% survival rate. Great news!

But no, the tyrants are just doubling down on freedom crippling mandates...
 
weatherfide said:
That should put this hole issue to bed! Survival rate is even higher for people under 65. The general public doesn't need to do anything special for a virus with a 99.74% survival rate. Great news!

But no, the tyrants are just doubling down on freedom crippling mandates...
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Wearing a mask is as much of a "freedom crippling" mandate as is wearing seat belt when you're driving a car.
 
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