Quote (Thor123422 @ 25 Apr 2020 19:11)

Calling them heroes does just as much to actually help them as "thoughts and prayers". We're using catchy tag lines instead of pushing for meaningful help. I think you're just overthinking it.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 25 2020 12:16pm)

Like I said, all the praise they are getting now is just lip service. After the crisis is over, people will realize that improving wages and working conditions in the healthcare system would cost tax payers a fuckton of money, and they will back off.
To be fair, in this regard, the situation is different from gun control, which could be increased without raising taxes or dues.

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Sweden is fighting coronavirus with common-sense guidelines that are much less economically destructive than the lockdowns in most U.S. states. Since people over 65 account for about 80% of Covid-19 deaths, Sweden asked only seniors to shelter in place rather than shutting down the rest of the country; and since Sweden had no pediatric deaths, it didn’t shut down elementary and middle schools. Sweden’s containment measures are less onerous than America’s, so it can keep them in place longer to prevent Covid-19 from recurring. Sweden did not shut down stores, restaurants and most businesses, but did shut down the Volvo automotive plant, which has since reopened, while the Tesla plant in Fremont, Calif., was shuttered by police and remains closed.

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Quote (Black XistenZ @ Apr 26 2020 07:20pm)

Per capita, Sweden does have far higher numbers of cases and deaths than other Nordic countries, and also compares unfavorably to most of Central Europe. So it's not like they had no price to pay at all for their more lax approach.
What's really interesting, however, is that they issued no lockdowns and still havent seen explosive, uncontrollable growth of the infection numbers. They did not get hit by exponential growth despite keeping their country largely up and running.

Quote (Thor123422 @ 27 Apr 2020 02:26)

Yeah but theyre also a more socially responsible people, a healthier population with better healthcare access, better educated, etc etc

America is too stupid to handle that kind of freedom responsibly

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If the same level of underreporting observed in these countries was happening worldwide, the global Covid-19 death toll would rise from the current official total of 201,000 to as high as 318,000.