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Originally Posted by MahomesMagic
I'm aware of politicians trying to override the approach where the scientists were in charge.
But of course the "follow the science" crowd doesn't like that so...
There will always be politicians trying to politician. No country is immune from them. Sweden has done a good job up to this point not letting people who don't understand anything make the decisions. Hopefully it can continue.
The prediction was 100,000+ dead Swedes if they didn't adopt Chinese style lockdowns. No masks, schools open. Never happened.
They had voluntary social distancing (I would be fine with that), handwashing (cool), and banned large events for a while.
They followed their chief epidemiologist.
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You're a smart guy and you know that any predictions made were done out of having to deal with a virus no one had ever seen before. There are people in this very thread that predicted less than 1k or 5k deaths, go back and read the early posts. No one had a clue and to a large degree we still don't know very much about covid.
Yes knowing what we know now we would do some things differently and sounds like Sweden will as well by doing more targeted lockdowns. We know that any medium or higher indoor gatherings shouldn't be happening at all.
And it is up to the government to fund those business and employees until it is safe to fully reopen. We failed here in the US doing that it and was left up to the states and local governments to protect lives which is BY FAR the most important thing. If it wasn't for the local and state governments, I think we would have 1 million or higher dead.