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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sweden is doing much less than us. 1/3 of their deaths are in nursing homes. Take those out and this pandemic’s impact on the general population over there looks even less lethal. [/quote]

The Swedish experience is clearly making a lot of people uncomfortable as it doesn't fit the narrative. For the same reason Florida does too. It's rather fascinating how people refuse to see these places as good news.

The simple reality is that the virus exists. We can't wish it away. We have always known from the early days from the Chinese data (corrupt as it may have been) and especially the Italian data, the virus is not lethal to the vast majority but is more lethal to elderly people with health problems (Italian data early on showed average age of 80 and most with at least two comorbidities, which is replicated in the data from Massachusetts and even New York). The blunt reality is for all the media hype over the rare younger victim, the virus is mostly killing people who are already dying. The average tenure in nursing homes is 2 to 2 1/2 years before death. Any death before your time is sad and tragic. But somehow we have adopted this maniac shutdown crippling everyone. Which is horrendous too. People will be suffering from this shutdown long after tyr virus has passed through our society. And I'm not sure if we can ethically claim it was right to cripple the economic wellbeing and future for tens of millions to possibly, just possibly,  save a few more lives for another year before they eventually succumbed to their health problems.

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Agree 100%[/quote]

^^^ These previous posts brought to you by someone who raged against Obamacare's 'death panels'  ^^^[/quote]

Credit where credit is due - the sock puppet trolls, though vastly outnumbered, make up for their lack of numerical support with lots (and lots) of posts.[/quote]

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