For this reason alone, we are unlikely to know the effectiveness of Sweden's herd immunity for months if not years.
For this reason alone, we are unlikely to know the effectiveness of Sweden's herd immunity for months if not years.
We don't know. Covid19 leaves some people with long-term, perhaps permanent damage. You might lose working-age tax-paying people from workforce, having to pay them disability allowance, and this might offset part or all of your savings in pensions.
The epidemic is already over in Sweden:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden#De...
(more up to date graph: https://lockdownsceptics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_...)
Yet a much lower level of infected population than conventionally understood has been reached. The models that assume the virus will continue to grow until 60%-70% have been infected are therefore wrong, reality itself is proving that.
There are now a whole lot of theories being explored as to why this is.
[edit: someone complained about the original graph link not matching worldometers. It's worldometers that's wrong so I replaced it with a Wikipedia link, which sources its data direct from Swedish health authorities. I left the lockdownsceptics link because it's a bit fresher]
Sweden (or any other country to be honest) is nowhere near herd immunity, which kicks in at 60% (though some studies seem to have pointed to a lower number around 45%/47% something like that, anyway), Stockholm I think is around 10%, maybe 15%
And even when you reach 60%, there's still an infection inertia
I think it's fine for Sweden to have tried their approach, at these times, there are no real right or wrong answers, and Sweden's population probably is a little more sensible than most other countries.
Other than geometric tidiness I see no point in your comment.
In fact, it ignores the denial of service impact that an epidemic has on a national health service, and plays down how it advocates for a population culling.
Perhaps it's time to relearn the basic principles and merits of "flattening the curve", not to mention the benefits of gaining some time until a vaccine is developed.