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

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**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweden-do-nothing-approach-good-us-uk-other-countries-early-do-nothing-approach-bad-why/850962 "2020-04-03T14:44:16Z")
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### Author: ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweden-do-nothing-approach-good-us-uk-other-countries-early-do-nothing-approach-bad-why/850962/789 "2020-12-20T13:40:08Z")

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I’m not going to bother getting into speculating about American amputations. I was offering a range of serious complications that are well documented. **The point was that using death as the only metric of success or failure is wrong**.

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