Mass death and economic devastation in Sweden, and conservatives want to be like them

[nebris]

Sweden is the world’s control group, the one country that never bothered to shut itself down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. What would happen, Sweden decided to tell us, if we did nothing to stem the spread of the disease and simply gunned for “herd immunity”?

Sweden might’ve been among the best countries to try this—not only does half its population live solo, which is a crazy statistic, but it boasts one of the world’s best health care systems and a robust social net. And now? Their experiment gone awry, its fast rising death toll places it among the world’s worst hotspots.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/22/1946944/-Sweden-is-a-coronavirus-disaster-and-conservatives-want-more-of-that-death?detail=emaildkre

Comments

[songsofemelnuvi]

Funny how that works, eh? The Swedes are lucky there's so few people that live in that Aesir-forsaken chunk of Europe.

[marahmarie]

I didn't want a control group, wouldn't have asked for one if given the choice, but now that the world's been gifted them as a control group, at least the result's in line with what science and common sense might well suggest. Hate to say "And let that be a lesson to the rest of you" but yeah.