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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1223085)	4/21/2020 9:45:42 AM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 1575173

I bet the feds back then ensured the supply of PPE to hospitals and the public in general. My how we’ve degraded since then. Back to the 1300’s... bring out your dead!

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1223085)	4/21/2020 12:07:27 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575173

yes, and back then, there was no lockdown. Americans were free to be responsible or not, but most were responsible. In Sweden, they understand that you can't incarcerate people and destroy the Constitution. So they went a far more responsible and rational way. See below... ----- Sweden Vs COVID-19: Why "Herd Immunity" Matters & Why Lockdown Doesn't Really Work Via UnHerd.com, Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks: UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product” The initial UK response, before the “180 degree U-turn”, was better The Imperial College paper was “not very good” and he has never seen an unpublished paper have so much policy impact The paper was very much too pessimistic Any such models are a dubious basis for public policy anyway The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown The results will eventually be similar for all countries Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people. The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1% At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available UnHerd host Freddy Sayers speaks with Professor Johan Giesecke in what they describe as one of the most extraordinary interviews they have done... Watch: