Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by jimmyswimmy on Thursday June 04, 2020 @08:13AM
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I think that's not quite correct. Sweden didn't pull any lever at all. They advised their citizens but left them individually free to choose their own path, or pull their own lever. I would argue that's a different ethical choice than what most other countries made.
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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by cowbellemoo on Thursday June 04, 2020 @09:24AM
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> Sweden didn't pull any lever at all
Your analysis of their passivity does not acknowledge the assumptions underlying an individualist strategy. The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health problem.
Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach
by mikem170 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:26PM
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>The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health problem.
Did that happen? I didn't hear that their health system broke under the load.
To the contrary, everyone else atomized their economies and still had the virus go through their populations.
Per-capita Sweden did about the same as France, and better than Italy, UK, and Spain.