Only seven countries have done worse than Sweden[1] in terms of deaths/population. It's worse than the US, 4 times worse than Germany, 95 times worse than South Korea and 1895 times worse than Taiwan. Despite having plenty of advance warning and (wasted) opportunity to learn from what other countries had done.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

Give it a few months. We will discuss about it. Let the those countries have their second wave they will be same as Sweden but with broken economy!

The government assures us[1] that the strategy was not motivated by economic considerations. Taking them at their word and judging it by the stated objective of curbing the pandemic and protecting people's health, it has been a colossal failure from the start.

Also, with Taiwan's current total[2] of 7 deaths, for them to "be the same as Sweden" there would have to be 13 000 deaths in the second wave. Unless the CDC initiates an exchange program to swap their experienced staff for Sweden's bumbling incompetents, that doesn't seem likely.

[1] https://bloomberg.omniekonomi.se/sweden-says-covid-strategy-...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En

The Swedish economy is already suffering. The swedish economy fell by (8.6%) 2nd quarter [1] compared to Denmark (7.4%) [2].

[1]: https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/nati...

[2]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/historisk-stort-fald-i-bnp-c...

Your conclusion is wrong. Sweden is going to fully open since COVID19 is solved issue now.

Denmark is going to suffer months, not years still.

Another interesting source on mortality rate without looking at the cause of death: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps

Here you can clearly see how Sweden has done much worse than its neighbours.

How can you link to the swedish numbers and still hold them up as an example? Their numbers are terrible compared to the rest of Europe.

Give it a few months. We will discuss about it. Let the those countries have their second wave they will be same as Sweden but with broken economy!

I’m not sure how herd immunity is going to work when there’s evidence suggesting that there is no long-term COVID-19 immunity as people are getting reinfected

Did you even try to look at scientific literature before making such claim? Or you are just saying what has been told to you by cnn?

Just 3 days ago was another study from Nature which shows that they antibody level is persistent.

There was another one a month ago.

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