Originally Posted by
the810
Yes, to save lifes by protecting the health care system. Flattening the curve was not about reducing the number of people who will get infected, but about distributing that number along a longer time period to allow health care systems to cope (and avoid Italian scenario, where people died because they weren't provided with the medical assistance they needed).
No, to save lives. Show me the experts guiding the responses of countries who said it was only to save the health care system. Making up your own facts is not going to work.
Originally Posted by
the810
Of course no one has claimed that, because they would have to admit they were wrong. However, if you look at rules that are being introduced in most of Europe, they are almost the same as rules in Sweden (maybe except face masks, but those aren't introduced in other Nordic countries either).
That's nonsense -- the mechanics of gradual reduction of protections will be more or less the same everywhere. No one is "following" the Swedish policy. You made that claim up wholesale -- show me one single country that said, "We are following the Swedish model".