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Sweden has about 10 times more deaths than their neighbours. Oh and this is with 80% of the population in VOLUNTARY lockdown, their bars and restaurants are open sure but they're empty.

The US would probably be at over a million deaths by now if life had continued normally without lockdowns.

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Norway doesn't count its deaths in the same way Sweden does and in any case Sweden's hospitals are not getting close to being overrun. Remember, curve flattening isn't about avoiding infections it's about spreading our rhe infection rates to allow the healthcare system to better cope. Also, Sweden is doing better than a lot of locked down countries so in any cade it's weird to only compare them to their immediate neighbors. Québec is similar to Sweden in a lot of ways but still has a higher mortality rate even if the province got hit a lot later than Sweden did

Do you have links to the Norwegian and Swedish statistics showing what methods they're using please?

I think we're all reasonable people here on HN.

I also think we have many different ideas about what's best. (Again, all people I assume are smart.)

This is just a hard scenario. There is no obvious 'best' answer. There may not even be a 'right' answer.

There is also the likelihood of this virus to have already infected a large % of the population. Antibody tests will confirm that.

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