Comment Re:Stockholm syndrome (Score 1) 583
Sweden has the worst economical projections of the Nordic countries
That is a matter of how you bend the statistics. Sweden has a very large export sector that is 99% dependent on what happens outside of Sweden and they are of course hard hit. Our tens of thousands of tiny "Mom and Pops" companies will most likely fare better that the equivalents in other European countries including the Nordics, without taking on as much new national debt in the process (excluding Norway - no country can compete with their oil fund). The effects on unemployment remains to be seen but the last prognosis I saw was that we will be slightly less affected than the other Nordics but we are all doing a lot better than the EU average. Same thing with GDP growth.
even the worst hit Stockholm area turned out to have antibodies in 7% of the population
7% of a sample that was tested in late April, and it takes 2-3 weeks after contracting the virus until the antibodies are measurable by that test. What the real numbers are today is anyone's guess.
Anyway, herd immunity was never a strategy, that was just one of many possible outcomes. The strategy was to keep the amount of cases low enough for hospitals to keep up, using constitution compatible and long term sustainable level of restrictions, then see what happens and make adjustments along the way as we learn more about the virus.