08-03-2020, 11:40 AM
(08-02-2020, 11:21 PM)Millhouse Wrote: Sweden isn't a good example anymore to point to that herd immunity works. Actually herd immunity only works if the herd actually has immunity overall, and in Sweden they don't. They are seeing sharp spikes recently in Covid and their death rate is now higher than the U.S. per million people. They also have 10 million people (Ohio), and are pretty well isolated from rest of world which helped their numbers for the first few months.
Their death rates are over ten times the rate of their neighbors Finland and Norway.
The people in Sweden who are trying to argue that they are reaching herd immunity are relying on the theory that once a person has the virus he will be immune for up to six months. That has not been proven at all.
