1. Russian roulette
    Tomi Aalto Tomi Aalto Finland says:
    April 24, 2020 at 1:46 AM

    Sweden is playing Russian roulette. No one knows of how durable the assumed immunity might be, or if the immunity is possible to achieve in general. If this new coronavirus behaves similarly as its relative SARS-Cov (2002-03), the immunity might remain for 1-2 years. But it's also very likely that this new coronavirus mutates and some people might have a short period immunity against strain A or B or C or D etc. The only way to get herd immunity is to develop a working vaccine and still we'd have several uncertainties. But this Swedish strategy is very expensive, at least if measured with a number of corona victims.

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    • Russian roulette & Lies
      Rebecca Olesen Rebecca Olesen Sweden says:
      May 31, 2021 at 4:30 PM

      Well, a year later we know how that worked out!  There is no long lasting immunity. If Tegnell had 'googled' coronavirus, he may have found the results of a 7 year study done in Kenya about whether immunity was ever developed against another coronavirus that causes cold-symptoms, which resulted in the answer: NO.  Almost all participants contracted the virus at least twice, one man caught it 8 times, and the shortest amount of time between infections was 3 months.
      Herd immunity can only occur with viruses in which permanent immunity is developed, naturally by transmission (chicken pox/measles) or created by a real vaccine.  For measles at least 95% of the population must be vaccinated for that to happen and in Sweden they were arguing that if 40% of the population "developed immunity" that would be enough to 'get rid of it'.
      The results have been catastrophic!
      Further, if Tegnell had bothered to read anything about Sars-Cov-1, he would have understood that MANY people who were hospitalized in 2003 epidemic were left with permanent lung damage and chronic, debilitating illness.  Just like now.

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