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Title: ‘We see no point in wearing a face mask,’ Sweden’s top virus expert says as he touts the country’s improving COVID numbers
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URL Source: https://fortune.com/2020/07/29/no-p ... -in-wearing-mask-sweden-covid/
Published: Aug 10, 2020
Author: CHARLES DALY AND BLOOMBERG
Post Date: 2020-08-10 07:42:00 by A K A Stone
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Views: 954
Comments: 11
As other countries face renewed outbreaks, Sweden’s latest Covid-19 figures suggest it’s rapidly bringing the virus under control. “That Sweden has come down to these levels is very promising,” state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told reporters in Stockholm on Tuesday. The Health Agency of Sweden says that since hitting a peak in late June, the infection rate has fallen sharply. That’s amid an increase in testing over the period. “The curves are going down and the curves for the seriously ill are beginning to approach zero,” Tegnell said. The development follows months of controversy over Sweden’s decision to avoid a full lockdown. The unusual strategy coincided with a much higher Covid-19 mortality rate than elsewhere in the Nordic region. Per 100,000, Swedish deaths even exceeded those in the U.S. and Brazil. On Tuesday, Sweden reported two new deaths, bringing the total to 5,702. Masks Tegnell also broached the subject of face masks, which the World Health Organization recommends people use when social distancing isn’t possible. “With numbers diminishing very quickly in Sweden, we see no point in wearing a face mask in Sweden, not even on public transport,” he said. Tegnell has consistently argued that Sweden’s approach is more sustainable than the sudden lockdowns imposed elsewhere. With the risk that Covid-19 might be around for years, he says completely shutting down society isn’t a long-term option. Meanwhile, many countries that thought they’d brought the virus under control are now seeing second waves. Tegnell called those developments “worrying.”
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#1. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#0)
The top virus expert weirdly “touts” his view after Sweden had reported 7 times more COVID-19 deaths per person than Finland and Norway, and 3 times more than Denmark.
Attaboy. You once again cherry picked a headline in your vain attempt to show a cause you ever so desperately want to believe in and neglected to report Sweden’s tragically misguided strategy.
You blindly continue irrationally and illogically with great consternation in your miserable misspented life to pitifully be the pathetically ingrained “degenerate fatalistic nonbeliever” you are.
Despite “your” expert Tegnell's expounded “theorization” – researchers have so far reached few solid conclusions …
… Google: The architect of Sweden's no-lockdown strategy said up to 30% of its population could now be immune to COVID-19, a claim not supported by data.
Before further illicit postings, you need to learn about the incompetence and moral bankruptcy of Sweden’s hands-off approach …
… Google: Responsibility of the Swedish left for Sweden’s Covid-19 tragedy.
Then finally learn to face reality …
Yes – I know. The shockingly “BIG NUMBER TEN” is yet to come. Wait for it …
You sound more and more like your ole pal yukon with every post...you just know bigger words than he did. Just wondering - Did you swallow a thesaurus and shit that post out? Hilarious watching you melt down and squander all of your allotted posts on what amounts to a childish tantrum. A smart guy would choose his words and battles wisely.
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. Tragedy, huh? In Sweden, Where There Was No Lockdown, COVID Cases & Deaths Have Slowed to a Trickle
Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
#2. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#1)
#3. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#2)
#4. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#3)
#5. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#4)
#6. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#5)
#7. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#6)
#8. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#7)
Google: Evidence is growing, but what will it take to prove masks slow the spread of COVID-19?
#9. To: The Impenetrable Stonehead, A Self-Professed Ignorant Nonbeliever (#8)
You have posted 9 of the maximum number of your 10 allotted comments in this 24-hour period.
#10. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#3)
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You blindly continue irrationally and illogically with great consternation in your miserable misspented life to pitifully be the pathetically ingrained “degenerate fatalistic nonbeliever” you are.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
#11. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#7)
Google: Responsibility of the Swedish left for Sweden’s Covid-19 tragedy.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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