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    Sweden has the highest coronavirus death rate in the world – and it’s getting even worse.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/coron…

    Well...there goes that right-wing looney tune "Herd immunity" theory out the window!

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    • C'mon, herd immunity is not a right-wing plot. It's a perfetly valid scientific theory. Just because the rednecks are using it as an excuse to act like assholeszarkonite
    • doesn't invalidate it. The data will tell us if it's going to work or not, science takes time.zarkonite
    • There data doesn't seem to check out with other sauces. https://www.statista…
      https://ourworldinda…      Chimp
    • Although I'm not sure I agree with their approach.Chimp
    • I seem to recall stats showing Belgium had highestBustySaintClaire
    • Herd immunity is a "theory." hahahahahahahahaMondoMorphic
    • Herd immunity is valid. But looking at the current numbers, we're so far away from that it barely makes sense as a strategy.yuekit
    • NYT has an article on this today
      https://www.nytimes.…      yuekit
    • Here's Why Herd Immunity Won't Save Us From The COVID-19 Pandemic
      https://www.sciencea…      utopian
    • ^ Good article, utopian. Nobody should be thinking of herd immunity as a prevention strategy, but like the author suggested, an eventuality.MondoMorphic
    • Comments are really uninformed. Someone wrote Turkey & Belarus as no-lockdown, low death rate countries.Turkey had strict lockdown and numbers are not reflectinBeeswax
    • the truth bc they have a different system for labeling deaths. Everyone hereknows they are lying about numbers.Too bad if other countries take that as an examplBeeswax
    • Sweden doesn't have a "Herd immunity strategy". And as long as countries doesn't count the deaths the same way, comparing numbers is pretty useless. Imo.haga
    • if your strategy is to go on like normal hoping most people get the virus and nothing else, then it's a herd immunity strategymonospaced
    • Mono, sure but that isn't the strategy. The strategy has been to focus on keeping the elderly safe, which pretty much failed initialy.haga
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