There is more to the equation than absolute deaths from the virus itself recorded today. What kind of metric are you going to use to account for all the lives destroyed by destroying our economy? This will be hard to measure, but this will result in shorter life spans, suicides, divorce and other hardships.
I mean the granddaughter of John F Kennedy and her 12 year old son died last week because of social isolation, which was a direct result of coronavirus. Due to social isolation orders, they retreated from their DC home to their summer home near the Chesapeake Bay, and died tragically in it canoe accident. If it had not been for social isolation, they would’ve been back in DC at the regular home and their son would’ve been going to school. So I guess you could say social isolation has indirectly just tragically killed a 12-year-old.
For all those worried about saving every life, why do we allow cars on the road and people to drive to work? Every year 30,000 people in United States die in car wrecks, and every one of these deaths could be prevented if we wouldn’t let people drive, or have cars.
Let’s wait to see how the Sweden experiment plays out, before we judge it. It’s still early. You’ve got to remember with social isolation most of what we’re looking at doing is “flattening the curve”; we might not be reducing the number of overall deaths. It could be that Sweden will have the same number of deaths as everybody else, but there’s will just be over a shorter period of time. We don’t know yet what will happen.
But there’s no crisis going on in Sweden right now, except the liberals around the world up in arms that they might be trying something different, and it might work just as well as what everybody else is doing. The problem is their experiment could end early with all the political pressure they’re getting from all the liberals around the world calling them out. Liberals hate it when somebody does something different than what they want.