Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to have scourge controlled

Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by ghaff on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:41PM (#24643557)

You're still making an assumption that those culture matters have an effect. For pretty much any country (or smaller region) it's easy to construct an after the fact rationalization of the outcomes.

Asia did better because people accept mask wearing--true but it's still pretty minimal in normal times. But somehow lack of mask wearing probably didn't matter in Sweden--but that's because they hate getting anywhere near another person anyway. But in the US Trump supporters not wearing masks is a big problem. Etc.

I'm not going to argue that nothing matters. (Certainly protecting especially vulnerable populations is something a lot of places totally whiffed on early.) But I expect that some things people are really polarized about don't matter much.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by rossdavidh on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:24PM (#24645300)

Our efforts (and by "our" I mean "the human species'") were absolutely unfocused. If we had spent the same amount of effort on getting the most vulnerable (mostly, the elderly) well away from the urban areas, we could have done a lot more good.

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Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @11:49PM (#24647163)

In very few places people in EU wear a mask in overall and public Healthcare experts say it's ineffective for general population.

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