When the pandemic hit and lockdowns began around the world, Sweden went its own way – and became a control group in a vast experiment. Two years on, the results are clear.
The very sad truth is that we are not equal in our susceptibility to becoming ill from the virus. As the UK challenge trial shows some exposed intentionally never became infected nor had any antibody response meaning the virus couldn't replicate. Pity we really don't know why. Those with a robust immune system got infected but had a mild course. Those with various comorbidity conditions had more severe illness but those with high levels of Vit D rarely died. And we know that there is 1000x difference between the seniors and the young. All the mitigation measures are one size fits all thus certain to be necessary for the population and in fact are revealed to have had little effect. The science of all we witnessed needs considerable work examining the effect of immune systems and better modelling of potential super-spreader individuals rather then groups. We need to understand the spike behavior of the infections.
Still despite the Swedish experience we see Germany still thinking mitigation works.
Sweden has become the poster boy for the save the economy at the expense of the people group. The lockdowns and masks have saved lives in Canada. The problem I have with the article is that it fails to mention that, per capita, Sweden's mortality rate from COVID 19 is approximately double of Canada's. I'm not sure that this is a model we would wish to emulate.
This article highlights the importance of scientific debate. Sadly, this debate was not allowed in some countries.
The very sad truth is that we are not equal in our susceptibility to becoming ill from the virus. As the UK challenge trial shows some exposed intentionally never became infected nor had any antibody response meaning the virus couldn't replicate. Pity we really don't know why. Those with a robust immune system got infected but had a mild course. Those with various comorbidity conditions had more severe illness but those with high levels of Vit D rarely died. And we know that there is 1000x difference between the seniors and the young. All the mitigation measures are one size fits all thus certain to be necessary for the population and in fact are revealed to have had little effect. The science of all we witnessed needs considerable work examining the effect of immune systems and better modelling of potential super-spreader individuals rather then groups. We need to understand the spike behavior of the infections.
Still despite the Swedish experience we see Germany still thinking mitigation works.
Sweden has become the poster boy for the save the economy at the expense of the people group. The lockdowns and masks have saved lives in Canada. The problem I have with the article is that it fails to mention that, per capita, Sweden's mortality rate from COVID 19 is approximately double of Canada's. I'm not sure that this is a model we would wish to emulate.