Open the Economy Now! Be Like Sweden

Sweden is a country that no one has talked about how they were handling the COVID-19. That is because Sweden refuse to be a sheep to the establishment. America should follow Sweden’s model because Washington is starting to push the envelope into our liberty and freedom. Always remember that power tends to corrupt, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. In other words, if you give the government an inch, they will take a yard. This shut down is bullshit. The establishment wants the American people to be a complete slave to the government. We need to follow what Sweden is doing during this pandemic.

Sweden followed the minimum standard to keep social distancing with basic common sense. Sweden banned large gatherings, closed high schools and universities and told elderly and people who are actually sick to stay home.

However, restaurants, bars, supermarket, pharmacies, and businesses  are still open. A total contradiction from other countries. Other countries, including USA, is in shutdown mode. Even though Swedens decision to ignore the standard norm during this pandemic, more people have died compared to the rest of the world in relation to population size.

As of April 2020, Sweden had 15,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,650 people have died. Comparing to its smaller neighbor Norway and Finland, there were 7,800 cases and approximately 200 deaths in Norway, and 4,600 cases and  115 deaths in Finland.

Even though Sweden had a higher death rate and more COVID-19 case, hospitals weren’t overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. With hospitals filled to 80% capacity, death rate and recovery rate didn’t show any abnormal anomaly, which means COVID-19 cases didn’t impact or stressed hospital care. That is because only the sick are admitted into the hospital and the type of socialized medicine practiced in the country.

The fatality of the COVID-19 was seen with the elderly and people with underlining disease (ex. COPD, cardiac) than people with good health (age group: 17 years old - 45 years old). Majority contracting the virus recovered. Keep in mind that the worldwide flu is a pandemic itself. Even though there is a flu vaccine, the world wide death rate is considerably high. Because there is a vaccine, the flu or influenza won’t be classified as a pandemic.

Sweden look at the COVID-19 like the Flu. Using common sense, people got vaccinated, some stayed home if they become sick, or practice social distancing for those not vaccinated. Keeping things status quo, Sweden experienced less damage  economically. While the world experience severe stoppage with personal spending, which was close to 70%, Sweden was unaffected. Unemployment was much lower in Sweden than compared to the whole world

If you want to know how Sweden did it? It’s called herd immunity. The idea stemmed that healthy individuals were exposed to the COVID-19 virus. Those infected develop antibodies to the virus. They, in turn, infected other healthy individuals; in order that, they develop antibodies to the virus. This is a similar concept how we develop antibodies when we received a vaccine. While those who got infected and showing sign and symptoms stayed home to recover or go to the hospital if the infected individual can’t breathe. With a high rate of recovery, Sweden saw keeping the economy open as a benefit outweighing the risk.

If Sweden didn’t fall into a false sense of security and allowing a tyrannical government completely controlling its people, Sweden did the right thing.