Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[JRPGfan]

jason1637 said:

Mnementh said:

Which countries do well? Maybe we can take notes to learn.

Germany is currently in the process of reopening (the different provinces have different times for school breaks, so not the whole country is reopening schools at the same time) and currently the new infections are strongly on the rise.

I was inder the impression that Japan, Germany, and Sweden handled it well.

Sweden tests about 1/3rd the amount the US does pr population. (so not alot)

They mainly test the really sick ones, ie. you show up at hospital looking deathly sick and possibly have covid19, you get tested.
Sweden manipulate numbers, around deaths.... basically they dont count them the same way other countries do.
So its likely their real numbers are much higher, if they were counted the same way as others.

Even then, look at Norway, 261 deaths, while sweden is like 5800 (in their funny counting ways).

So spread there is much higher than testing would indicate (because of low testing).
Actual deaths are likely much higher (and they are already like 10-20 times as high as the neighboring countries).

Also this ignores the fact that there are more than 2 outcomes to getting this sickness.
Its wrong to just go "this person lived, this person died".

Reality is a large amount of people get permanent heart damage, lunge damage, kidney damage, brain damage, ect. after getting covid19.
These people are alive, but could have to face a life very differnt from their prior one, because of this virus.

Sweden will have much higher amounts of such, than other places, because they let it spread so much.

"...Sweden handled it well."

Personally dont think so.
If theres a vaccine this year, or early next year that can mitigate much of this virus.
Then swedens route was obviously a bad one.