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Herd immunity without a vaccine isn’t a strategy. It’s just justifying doing nothing.

Not really, if age separation can be achieved efficiently, herd immunity wouldn't be impossible.

The problem is that you really need an advanced country to organize separating people by age (making young people get through the virus without passing it to older people).

I would have significantly more respect for the Swedish approach if they had protected their elderly and other vulnerable communities. The fact is that the weak do not account for an unavoidable minority of the deaths.

The Swedish approach may get them out the other end before any country aside from China and Vietnam, but the Swedish execution did not save lives by protecting the vulnerable.

I agree with you totally. In Hungary our first hospitalization was because of a guy who lives in UK and travelled to Hungary to visit his parents. Of course it was his father who went to hospital, not him.

That was the intention, and the actions where designed for it. However, the care of elderly are handled by the municipalities, who didn’t have any readiness for handling it properly. Hopefully some of those mistakes can be avoided outside of Stockholm by more extensive testing of personell.

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