Comments by "Terje Oseberg" (@terjeoseberg990) on "FOX 13 Seattle"
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@joerochon4058 , Well, the reason about 50% of the population is asymptomatic when they are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus is because they have been previously exposed to some coronavirus with similar enough spike proteins that the antibodies are compatible enough with the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins. They’ve actually identified these spike proteins already, but they haven’t yet discovered the virus.
It’s my hypothesis that the people living in the Scandinavian countries are exposed to significantly more coronaviruses than the rest of Europe and most of the United States, and therefore have a larger percentage of their population with those antibodies.
The result would be that the Scandinavian countries would all likely experience similar results as Sweden had they utilized the same strategy, but most of the United States, the rest of Europe, and South America would not.
In other words, Sweden took a risk, and got lucky. The rest of the world would not have been so luck. This is obvious when you look at Italy and New York early during the pandemic. Both had overwhelmed hospitals and case fatality rates above 6% while their hospitals were overwhelmed.
Your claim that the test of the world would have been better off had they used Sweden’s approach is based on a lot of assumptions that Italy, New York and several other countries have already proven incorrect.
Despite this, Norway, Finland, and Denmark experienced far fewer deaths than Sweden. I believe they made the right choice. Also, Australia did much better than Florida. Despite similar populations, Florida experienced over 50,000 deaths while Australia experienced around 1,300.
China did even better than Australia. They completely stopped the virus twice while both Australia and New Zealand failed the second time because delta is so much more contagious.
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