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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by untog on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:05PM (#22988884)
> You're assuming that if all states had taken the same approach, they would have all taken the best approach.

I'm really not. It makes sense that different states should try different things, and I imagine that if all politicians listened to the scientists there would have been different answers proposed for different states.

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Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’... by NotSammyHagar on Sunday April 26, 2020 @02:38PM (#22989111)
This isn't just playing around with abstract new things that we have no experience with in public health. The same situation is happening in Sweden's "experiment" as compared to other countries with similar health systems in Europe. Sweden is expected to have about 10,000 deaths and they should have about 2,000 deaths if their health system works about as well as Switzerland. See https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden. For reference Sweden has about 10 mil pop, Switzerland has 8.5 mil. Sweden is expected to kill about 8,000 people unnecessarily. We know this can happen because of experience with many previous epidemics.
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