John here.
I’ve said from the start that the numbers don’t make sense. Part of that reason is because the WHO and CDC were speculating large scale numbers based on isolated data and provided fodder for the media to create panic.
Earlier this month on my Facebook page, I said the media should be held accountable (in part) for their role in spreading panic. When the reality started rolling in, instead of talking about how great social distancing was working, they started pointing fingers at government for being wrong. The media won’t call out the CDC or WHO, but that’s where the governments globally got their data from, and what they reacted to.
Earth went on lockdown, with variations of stay-at-home orders and quarantines throughout the world. Well, except Sweden. They went with a different approach.
Sweden decided to try a herd immunity strategy, basically letting Swedes live their lives as normal. They protected the elderly, but there was no “stay-at-home” edict. Their economy didn’t crash and burn, jobs weren’t mandated to close. And maybe the Swedes were on to something. Let’s take a look at the mortality rates to see how they did:
- World: 6.69%
- Sweden: 12.21%
- United States: 5.90%
- New York State: 6.47%
In the last 3 months, 12 Swedes died for every 100 that got COVID-19. In the same time frame, 6 out of 100 people AROUND THE WORLD died. Sure, their infection rate dropped a lot faster, but at what cost?
Still think herd immunity is worth the risk?