[Info-vax] COVID-19

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <5fd693c3$0$277$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>, MG
<marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes: 

> If Sweden is right and the whole world is wrong, then why
> has Sweden gradually changed its strategy: Are they right
> and bending to pressure, or is it an admission of poor
> judgement and mismanagement...?

It is called learning from experience.  I doubt any country in the world 
has the same strategy they had at the beginning.

Yes, I would have decided differently, but in hindsight most things are 
easy to guess.  Nevertheless, as Jan-Erik points out, the only 
interesting statistic is the number of deaths per capita, and many, many 
countries are doing worse than Sweden here, even those with "better" 
strategies.  This doesn't necessarily mean that Sweden had a better 
strategy; for a variety of reasons, there are in general fewer contacts 
than in some other countries.

> Another thing that should be noted about Sweden, in terms
> of spread and the infection rate: From what I read, in
> sociology studies and also casual observations, Swedes as
> a people are naturally rather distanced.  I guess this
> has mitigated things to a large degree.

Right.