Sweden -COVID-19

[billisonboard]

Have read a few places on the board positive things about Sweden's strategy for dealing with the virus. Thought it might be good to have a place to discuss it.

Swedish Virus Deaths Top 1,000, Fueling Criticism Over Strategy

In all, 1,033 Swedes have died from Covid-19, official figures showed on Tuesday. Though still well below fatality rates in Italy and the U.K., it’s far worse than in any of the Nordic countries with which Sweden usually compares itself. The Swedish mortality rate is almost 10 times higher than in Finland, more than four times higher than in Norway, and twice Denmark’s.

[haapai]

The modeling that I am looking at indicates that even if they decided by the end of the week that their caseload or deaths were getting too high, they'd still see deaths rise for another three weeks and peak at a level at least two and a half times what they were when tactics were changed. 

They're not doing a very good job of protecting their elderly.  They don't even seem to be trying. 

[haapai]

The number of cases and deaths in care homes and group living situations is rapidly becoming a big part of the Covid-19 story everywhere. 

Part of me wonders if the thinking behind Sweden's strategy was that attempting to keep outbreaks out of such places was futile.  That is, even a strategy that reduced the number of outbreaks in half would have a negligible effect on the total number of deaths in such places over the next two years. 

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Sweden was making no efforts at social distancing etc. They decided on a hands-off, laissez-faire approach. Pretty stupid if you ask me. Sadly they are now reaping the idiocy of that strategy.

[haapai]

They seem to have a rather cavalier attitude regarding their health care providers.  Even if they were being heartlessly logical regarding their elderly, the stress and death that they are inflicting on their health care system strikes me as illogical.