bookwyr.meThere's a narrative in some circles that COVID-19 restrictions went too far — and some of those people look to Sweden's "let it rip" approach to ...
Flipboard Science DeskThere's a narrative in some circles that COVID-19 restrictions went too far — and some of those people look to Sweden's "let it rip" approach to support their arguments, including the authors of a new book, "In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us." For the American Prospect, Ryan Cooper explains why the Swedish example is an unhelpful one, because of the country's household structures, world-class public health care and high-trust population, and the fact that the country did actually implement some fairly strict COVID-19 measures. "We already know what happened when COVID was allowed to run wild in a country without any of Sweden’s advantages," Cooper writes. "That was what unfolded in Peru, a weak state with a rickety hospital system that was unable to implement its attempted lockdown. It was a charnel house, with about 220,000 official COVID deaths — almost three times the rate of Sweden, or more than seven times that of New Zealand — and that is almost certainly a large underestimate."
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@ScienceDesk @bookstodon My boss just got covid. Again
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Here in the Netherlands they call it "sick", or "flu", "a bad cold" or even "allergies".
Only the Covid conscious are still testing.
Despite an article that Covid awakens dormant cancer cells, people start complaining about how bad the "lockdowns" were and that the vaccines made them all sick.
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The Netherlands tried to keep schools open, so that they could achieve herd immunity (it was speculated that 60% of the population had to be infected) could be achieved without vaccine. The idea was to separate the elderly from the rest of society and to let everyone else get infected (children, their parents).
Obviously this turned out to be a disaster with ICU units in hospitals unable to cope.
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In the end the Dutch managed with full remote teaching for elementary schools for a total of 5 weeks (4 in 2020 and 1 in 2021) and partial remote teaching for elementary schools for 2 more months in 2020.
People remember more closures, but that was mostly because teachers were too ill to teach, or too many kids could not go to school because of being sick.
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Somehow there is still a steady stream of people who want to teach, despite teachers being the largest group of people who have to claim disability benefits for long Covid (after healthcare workers).
@bookstodon @ScienceDesk The Swedish example is not a faulty one. The argument is faulty (for the reasons given). Big fucking difference
@bookstodon @ScienceDesk The Swedish example is not a faulty one. The argument for applying it everywhere is faulty (for the reasons given). Big fucking difference