Something Interesting
Is Sweden an outlier? How have they managed to do not follow the path of so many other countries.
In the Dispatch Newsletter, David French wrote:
Sweden has, in many ways, taken the road less traveled, choosing to ban gatherings of more than 50 people but leaving open schools, bars, restaurants, and stores while most European countries have banned nearly all potentially communal activities. The United Kingdom, for instance, having flirted with a less restrictive response, has now largely shut down, with prohibitions even on sunbathing. London and Stockholm have similar population density (5,600 people per kilometer vs 5,200 per kilometer), but despite this, the Swedish death toll is just under 500 and the U.K.'s is well over 5,000 and Prime Minister Boris Johnson is himself in intensive care. Yes, the U.K. has 66 million people and Sweden just 10 million, but the lower fatality rate (50 per million Swedes, 82 per million Brits) despite the relaxed rules has left many in the Western world wondering whether the Swedes know something the rest of us don't.
Read this interesting piece in the National Review:
Unlike other countries, it has so far avoided both isolation and economic ruin.
If the COVID-19 pandemic tails off in a few weeks, months before the alarmists claim it will, they will probably pivot immediately and pat themselves on the back for the brilliant social-distancing controls that they imposed on the world. They will claim that their heroic recommendations averted total calamity. Unfortunately, they will be wrong; and Sweden, which has done almost no mandated social distancing, will probably prove them wrong.
Clayton Craddock is an independent thinker, father of two beautiful children in New York City. He is the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration froHoward University’s School of Business and is a 25 year veteran of the fast paced New York City music scene. He has played drums in a number of hit Broadway musicals including “Tick, tick…BOOM!,Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical and Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill. In addition, Clayton has worked on: Footloose, Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.
Clayton is the chair of the New York chapter of the National Parents Organization and is focused on promoting shared parenting, where both parents have equal standing raising children after a separation or divorce. He is writing a memoir and writes for various local and national publications.
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