'We have failed' — Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf admits failure on coronavirus 'herd immunity' strategy as COVID deaths multiply

[Wanderfound]

@Doctor_Faustus

you can’t tell me that they would have worked in a central European country with 5 to 8 land borders.

COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam

COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom

Land borders have nothing to do with it.

Covid didn’t get into America or Europe because of poor brown people walking across the borders; it came in with rich white people on airplanes.

[FGD135]

Land borders are a factor re spreading inside continental Europe.
Like just popping over to do some shopping or skiing - and some people still do that right now.

[Doctor_Faustus]

@Wanderfound

Covid didn’t get into America or Europe because of poor brown people walking across the borders; it came in with rich white people on airplanes.

I absolutely didn’t say that! I was thinking about people living in Germany but working in Switzerland or using the Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden.

As for the UK, I addressed that above:

@Doctor_Faustus

Well it’s only the prerequisite for the NZ strategy to work. In addition to that you also need decisive action, clear communication and the will to help your country even if it may backfire politically. glances at Tories

But my point was that if you aren’t an island in the first place these policies alone aren’t going to be enough.

[Jeroen_Metselaa]

Herd immunity is a vaccine strategy. Trying to apply it with the actual disease is like preventing an accidental house fire by setting it alight yourself.

[PartTimeZombie]

It worked fine for Vietnam (for example).