Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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donathos said:

John2290 said:

Testing doesn't change reality, lol, it's an anchor in the water. I gotta wonder are you some kind of solipsist who believes things onpy appear when you observe them? What's worse though, testing now or comparing death rates this year to previous years.

I have to admit though, I'm falling more and more in line with Sweden. Not in regards to the testing or keeping pubs open and other stupid shit like that but that a full lovkdown is a death sentence down the road, perhaps for large portions of a population. We need to find the line, quickly and balance this, somewhere in between but not to the extreme, either side. 

Like almost everything else in this blighted age, the question of Sweden's response to Covid has become politicized to the point of meaninglessness. So maybe this is dumb/naive to ask -- and I may be misremembering -- but going back a bit, wasn't the original goal of our sundry and various measures to "flatten the curve"?

Meaning that we wanted to slow the rate of infections such that they did not overwhelm medical infrastructure at any given point, not to somehow stop Covid from spreading altogether (which has long been acknowledged as impossible, so far as I can recall). Well, maybe it's yet too early to tell, but is there any way we can evaluate Sweden's approach from that perspective? Have their capacities been overwhelmed? Is it approaching that point?

Theres places that have had coronavirus, that now no longer have any active cases.
This does infact prove, that its actually possible to completely rid your country of it.
(ofc you'll always be at risk of a new outbreak, but the same is true for other places)