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Why don’t you just give up on this nonsense with "cases". "Cases" are a case of bs. The only things that count are hospitalizations and deaths.
Even NY Times had an article that 90% of cases are bs because the method used to detect "cases" magnifies data and detects the virus that is "clinically" insignificant.
Many kids under 18 are "cases", but the number of dead is like 30 for the entire country since the beginning of that liedemic. When in the nation of 330,000,000, 200,000 old guys die, it's sad but it's not "pandemic". It's called "life". Life is a terminal disease.
The fearmongers have been looking for a case of a student passing this "horrible" virus to a teacher in Europe and they didn't find any.
Do you know that 75% of those who died in Europe, died in nursing homes? This shows what a bs lockdowns are. In the US, of the 200,000 dead, the median age is 78. Only 20% were under 65. What a load of crap - I mean the lockdowns.
BTW, I cited Europe because Europe (Belgium, Spain, and the UK) has higher death rates than the US. At least 3 countries there. Sweden, that smartly didn't lockdown, has a LOWER death rate than the UK, the US, and Italy that did. Duh!
Apparently you can’t grasp the concept that when cases go up, hospitalizations and deaths go up. They are directly correlated with a lag time in between. The fact that many are asymptomatic is irrelevant, a percentage will still need to be hospitalized and will die.
You also can’t grasp the fact that the reason we don’t have many times the number of deaths is because of the mitigation efforts the we have taken.
Sweden didn’t have the same kind of lockdown as other countries but contrary to popular belief life is NOT normal there.
Sweden’s minister of health explains:
“Sweden is tackling the COVID-19 pandemic through both legally binding measures and recommendations. The government and the Swedish Public Health Agency have taken a number of decisions involving a wide range of new regulations and recommendations that affect the whole of society, including people’s private lives. There is no full lockdown in force, but many parts of Swedish society have shut down.
Life is not carrying on as normal in Sweden. Many people are staying at home and many have stopped travelling. This has had severe effects on Swedes as well as on the Swedish economy. Many businesses are folding. Unemployment is expected to rise dramatically. The Government has taken several measures to mitigate the economic effects and to stabilise the economy.
Sweden shares the same aim as all other countries: to protect the life and health of its population. Fundamentally, Sweden’s measures only differ from other countries in two regards: we are not shutting down schools for younger children or childcare facilities and we have no regulation that forces citizens to remain in their homes.”
They also claim to have good compliance with their social distancing rules up to near 90% now. Something that’s much easier to do when the leader of the country is in sync with the health authorities rather than working against them as Trump has done.
In June they also finally got the message that testing, quarantine and contact tracing works. After a slow start in March and April they are now on par with Germany who does a good job with this.
They also do things like restrictions on bars that only allow patrons to sit at socially distanced tables instead of standing around in crowds or cheek to cheek at the bar (something we could do).
Unfortunately they have suffered badly in terms of both mortality rates and economic damage compared to other countries before they got their act together.
I also see you are one of those people who think old people dying doesn’t matter. Perhaps you also think someone who kills an 80 year old person should not be prosecuted but I don’t think the law or most people would agree with you.
YOU and others like you including Trump who don’t follow the guidelines and discourage others from doing so are the reason for virus outbreaks and the resulting shutdowns needed to contain them.
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