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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by nickthemagicman on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:33AM (#23767159)
Sweden hasnt any had any hospitals overwhelmed. they're just front loading the deaths that every single other country is going to have but is just delaying.

Do you think Corona is going anywhere?

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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by Leherenn on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:03AM (#23767310)
A vaccine in the next couple years is not unthinkable I'd say.

If you have a look at the current infection rate in a lot of European (and others) countries, even reaching 50% of the population infected would take decades.

So yes, I believe that delaying is not the only possibility.

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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by anoncake on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:23AM (#23767402)
Keeping the virus contained for years is unthinkable. If we don't get a vaccine by next year, we won't need it anymore.
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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by Leherenn on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @06:35AM (#23768597)
With the current measures in Europe? Definitely doable.

It's currently mandatory masks in public, keeping distances and washing hands, and no big crowds.

Life feels pretty normal over here.

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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by anoncake on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:37AM (#23769248)
It's great that life feels normal for you, not everyone is that lucky. People have already started to disobey and it isn't even winter.
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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by Leherenn on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:04PM (#23774207)
Are those measures really unbearable for you? I feel like we are talking about different situations, and I'd like to understand your point of view.

I'm talking from the perspective of a European country with <100 cases/day.

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Re:Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to colle... by nickthemagicman on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:58AM (#23779215)
We're doing that in America and cases are skyrocketing.

A lot of places are starting to reinstitute lockdowns.

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