Sweden's herd immunity hopes dashed by second coronavirus wave

They seem to be doing fine. In fact much better than others. We'll know more in a month or two.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

The important thing to note here, and something I questioned before opening the article, is that their second wave includes hospitalizations and deaths.

So it’s not “sure, they’re not immune, but their exposure to it isn’t anywhere near as deadly for their population”, etc. Instead, they’re experiencing quite a lot of death and hospitalizations, which seems an unfortunate result in their experiment.

I hope they recover from this and many lives are saved from here on, for them.

The headline uses false framing. Sweden wanted an appropriate response to the infection risk. So called "herd immunity" does not yet have any established relation to coronavirus.

Scary stuff

https://i.redd.it/gzv67r948ty51.jpg

The countries who had strict lockdowns are having second waves. The countries who had lax lockdowns are seeing a second wave. With the exception of island nations and those who imposed restrictions that are not legally possible in most of the west, the virus will spread until immunity is reached. Either through vaccines or naturally.

The only sane response is to continue as close to normal as possible while protecting the vulnerable and reducing risk via masks and distancing.

Somehow _this_ is the controversial opinion.