Sweden do-nothing approach good, US/UK/other countries' early do-nothing approach bad. Why?

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@Banquet_Bear

But all that isn’t good enough for you. We need to open our borders and let thousands of people die. And even that probably wouldn’t be enough.

@Banksiaman

If we have contributors from there perhaps they would like to chime in on how much better they would be taking SayTwo levels of desired covid cases and corresponding death rates for the team.

@Richard_Pearse

And you think we’d be better off if we’d just joined in with the general incompetence?

@Mijin

And now? Lo, the virus is unstoppable! Who are we, mere governments, to try to contain our new RNA-overlord? We must sit on our hands, while the elders work on an elixir for us.

@Banquet_Bear

Is this really what its all about for you? You’ve taken a dangerous, contrarian, anti-science position in almost every thread here in the Quarantine Zone. Is the reason you’ve done that because you think New Zealanders are just a bit “smug”?

@galen_ubal

It rather reminds me of the resentful spite MAGAts express towards “the liberals”. They complain that the left thinks they’re so much better than them, and any attempt by the left to explain their point of view (or, you know, the facts) is seen as, at best, talking down to them, and therefore insulting.

@Banquet_Bear

What an utterly bizarre and off-topic thing to say.

@Banksiaman

A whack-a-mole mish-mash of controls at county and state levels, and widespread flouting of any measures that might mitigate transmission, and perhaps protecting old folks homes (where ~6.5% of the vulnerable live), likely resulting in the sorts of rates of infection and deaths that you are seeing now, with intermittent closures, hot-spot outbreaks and projected deaths and cases with likely future harm, but mainly ensuring free-market mechanisms are not compromised [US now]?

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