https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53741851
Coronavirus: Exposure rate 'similar' in London and Stockholm
12 August 2020
Exposure to Covid-19 is similar in Stockholm and London, based on antibody tests, despite different lockdown strategies, research suggests.
Sweden chose to avoid a strict...
What if place B got massive unpopulated areas?
The US got 35 people per square kilometer and they are in a pretty rough spot.
Sweden is more urbanised (86%) than UK (83%). The square kilometers where no-one lives play a very small role in the spread of this virus. If you include the Norrland...
Yes, he probably broke the "public access to official records" law by deleting those emails. Not good. He does talk quite a lot about herd immunty though.
And yes by next spring we should know... I hope. If countries keep going into full lockdown and no vaccine comes along, it could be the same...
The logical thing of evaluating the value of lockdowns is to compare lockdown countries with no lockdown countries. How can people say that our cultures are similar when the culture of Norway and Denmark was to be locked up in their apartments and our culture was to live on but more carefully...
First of all, about daily cases:
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&year=latest&time=2020-08-24..2020-09-05&country=SWE~NOR~DNK®ion=World&casesMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=total_deaths&pickerSort=desc
Second: our...
We also currently have one of the lowest rates of new cases in the world. Lets make another comparison in six months or so and we'll see how the strategy worked out compared to other countries...
Its very hard for people to follow rules that are inconsistent, incoherent and changing from week to week. It just signals "we have no idea what we are doing" which leads to people thinking "well in that case, why should I listen?". Yes people are idiots but if your government keeps it simple...