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Agree that Sweden's response was based on its own priorities and that an evaluation of the success of that versus those pursued in other countries is best analyzed when all is said and done on the virus (including, if ever, a vaccine is widely available).  Having said that, I think it's fair to say, as Sweden's own experts have, that they did not handle the elderly population as well as they should/could have.  And that population still remains the driver in fatalities in all countries.

That's a very good point.  I think one of the explicit goals of the "Swedish plan" was to insulate high risk populations, especially the elderly, from the pandemic.  That seems not to have happened (or not to have been done well).  I have seen suggestions made where the population is divided into three groups; a high risk group that remains isolated as much as possible from the general population, a low risk group that more or less maintains business as usual, and a transitional group that comes in contact with the high risk group (for example, caretakers), is tested frequently, and tries to maintain social distance from the low-risk group.

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Agree that Sweden's response was based on its own priorities and that an evaluation of the success of that versus those pursued in other countries is best analyzed when all is said and done on the virus (including, if ever, a vaccine is widely available).  Having said that, I think it's fair to say, as Sweden's own experts have, that they did not handle the elderly population as well as they should/could have.  And that population still remains the driver in fatalities in all countries.

That's a very good point.  I think one of the explicit goals of the "Swedish plan" was to insulate high risk populations, especially the elderly, from the pandemic.  That seems not to have happened (or not to have been done well).  I have seen suggestions made where the population is divided into three groups; a high risk group that remains isolated as much as possible from the general population, a low risk group that more or less maintains business as usual, and a transitional group that comes in contact with the high risk group (for example, caretakers), is tested frequently, and tries to maintain social distance from the low-risk group.

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