Rigby5
Diamond Member
And you seamlessly move on to more bullshit assertionsYou admit you’re full of shit and fall back on other bullshitBelgium and Italy are NOT a good comparison.https://escholarship.org/content/qt0v87n84k/qt0v87n84k_noSplash_657919e72eed970def2440df233f60df.pdf
Non‑COVID‑19 deaths after social distancing in Norway
Nonsense.
Of course there as social distancing both in Norway AND Sweden.
But the point is that there was less social distancing than places like Belgium and Italy, and yet far lower death rates.
And your link is pointless because it only compare NON-COVID related deaths.
In no way does your link actually compare the amount of social distancing between Norway and Sweden for example.
Fail
True, but they do show how social distancing may not be the only or best solution.
Its more complicated than that.
Historically it still is best to accelerate the initial spike, not try to "flatten the curve".
Wrong.
I admit Italy and Belgium are cherry picking the worst, and is not valid proof since we don't really know why they were so bad.
But obviously Sweden did not do as badly as the US.
No one can deny that.
Nor can anyone ever defend "flattening the curve".
That by anyone's value system is incredibly stupid, as all it does is prevent herd immunity from ever ending the epidemic.
And a perpetual epidemic obviously is the worst case for largest total deaths eventually.
You get the least number of deaths by accelerating it as quickly as possible, with the most healthy volunteers
Wrong.
It should be obvious that if we have deliberately infected volunteers early on, then the easy hosts it took for the virus to start spreading, would have already been immune, and the epidemic would have stopped cold.
Sweden proves that flattening the curve is never the best solution, and in fact can never work to end any epidemic.
For example, what Germany and China did was more like full quarantine than flattening the curve.