On Thursday Sweden’s chief epidemiologist announced the Swedish strategy appears to be working and that “herd immunity” could be reached in the capital Stockholm in a matter of weeks.
d immunity among a population, usually achieved through vaccination, is reached when around 60% of citizens are deemed immune. Without a vaccine for the coronavirus, however, scientists are looking at whether exposure to and recovery from Covid-19 leads to long-term immunity.
Last night reporter Johan Norberg made these truly frightening remarks:
Laura Ingraham: We found out that herd immunity will be reached in about 2-3 weeks in Sweden. I mean, then they’re kind of done.
Johan Norberg: That’s why we shouldn’t make too many comparisons to cases and deaths right now. Because almost every other country except Sweden has just postponed deaths. They won’t avoid them because there is still no argument that has been made that suddenly this disease will go away after their lockdowns are over. I mean if they’re waiting for a vaccine that could take over a year if we’re lucky. It could take several years. And no society can be shut down completely and shut down the economy for more than a year without ruining society and the economy entirely. And that will kill many more people than the virus does.
That is a huge development!
It certainly looks like Sweden used the right approach.
Oaks once you have gone the lock down route you cannot then just open up the economy fully without a large spike in deaths. The Swedes agree that you then have to do it in stages.
Trump is therefore in the circumstances correct to be cautioning Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia to not go the whole hog. Trump though is very happy that other states in better positions than Georgia can open up more fully. All this is far too complicated for the Boards chief clown, the hapless sharkvirus, to follow.