[ExI] did sweden accidentally achieve herd immunity?

[Brent Allsop]

Accidentally????

That is what I've been saying all along.  And what I was trying to say to
Clark and others in this group, way back when.
All you do by "flattening the curve" is extend the time before you achieve
herd immunity.
You don't decrease the total number of people that will get sick, you just
decrease the number of people that will be sick at any one time.
It makes it easier on the hospitals, and fewer people die because the
hospitals can handle fewer sick people at one time.  But it stretches out
the pain much longer, before we achieve herd immunity.

I'm sure many people making decisions in Sweden understood all this very
clearly and intentionally.

Clark, what was it you were saying about how bad off Sweden is because it
was doing so little?

(yes, I expect you to eat your words ;)

Brent








On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:09 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Source:
>
>
>
> https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
>
>
>
> Sweden did less than other countries on Covid.  They did shut down
> schools, but didn’t do all that much else.
>
>
>
> The Swedish approach was not advertised as looking to achieve herd
> immunity, but that might be what is happening here.
>
>
>
> As Reason magazine points out, if they accidentally blundered into
> achieving even partial herd immunity, it is good news for the species:
>
>
>
>
> https://reason.com/2020/08/14/did-sweden-accidentally-blunder-into-covid-19-herd-immunity/?utm_medium=email
>
>
>
> spike
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20200814/bcf2d56c/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 28941 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20200814/bcf2d56c/attachment-0001.jpg>