From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!peer02.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx46.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: Not to incite a language war but apparently the Corona lockdown was based on 13 year old undocumented C-Code Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: From: Rick Newbie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 14:58:18 UTC Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 07:58:18 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 3337 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2606548473 Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:58679 Date: 2020-05-13T07:58:18-07:00 List-Id: > Sweden and Finland are geographical neighbours and very similar in terms > of population structure and density. New York is much more densely > populated and is a major travel hub, so a higher pandemic impact is to > be expected. > When I look at Wikipedia, Sweden has about double the population of Finland with a greater number of people living in bigger cities. Also the time of arrival of the virus or should I say the time when the exponential grow of cases became measurably greater is likely different. The main point however is that, provided Finland does more extensive lockups as you say (I am not very familiar with Finland due to it not being in the news very much so I can not verify this but I take your word for it), Finland will get into problems when they easy or terminate the lockups. While Sweden has seen maybe more cases now, they don't have to open up their country, while all those countries who did a lockup will eventually have to open up. That is provided they WILL ever upen up. Right now the trend seems to be to throw us a piece of bait about "soon, soon" and then slap us across the face again with "Nahh, not before we have a vaccine". But let's assume there will be an end to the lockups, which means people in Finland will get in contact which each other again, which means the virus will begin to spread, which means more measurable cases which means more deaths "from" the virus (however that is number is constructed). In short: It's a virus! And it will infect as many people as it will infect and it will kill as many people as it will kill. Without a vaccine (we are still waiting for one for AIDS, SARS, MERS and others...), either in a short term as in Sweden or in a long term, as will be the case in Finland. The overall number will be comparable. The lockdown accomplishes nothing other destroying our countries. And let's not forget that the original purpose of it was "to flatten the curve so that the hospital's can handle the cases and don't get overwhelmed". Well hospitals are empty, nurses kill their time by dancing on Tik Tok and people are running out of money and food. What is the argument to keep this insanity up?