{"id":345775,"date":"2020-04-22T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=345775"},"modified":"2020-04-23T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:20:43","slug":"the-swedish-strategy-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/22\/the-swedish-strategy-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swedish Strategy Is Working"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Sweden is not locking down. Sweden hadn\u2019t shut down anything. It\u2019s all voluntary. You want to keep your business open, keep it open. You want to go to that restaurant if it\u2019s open, go ahead and go. They\u2019re not mandating anybody shut anything down.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a story here in The Spectator USA by Fredrik Erixon:”The Swedish Experiment Looks Like It\u2019s Paying Off<\/a> — As much of the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach.” The story outlines the enormous pressure the entire world has been putting on Sweden and their public health agency to shut down to conform with the rest of the world and how their government is resisting.<\/p>\n

The belief in Sweden is that the virus is gonna spread no matter what people do. It\u2019s gonna spread whether you shut down, it\u2019s gonna spread whether you destroy your economy or not, it\u2019s gonna spread whether you kill 22 million jobs, it\u2019s gonna spread whether you board up hundreds of thousands of businesses. It\u2019s going to spread no matter what you do until there\u2019s some way to stop it. And we don\u2019t have a way to stop it so we\u2019re just prolonging the disaster with the lockdown and shutdown.<\/p>\n

Sweden believes that going into lockdown is simply gonna lengthen the process of building up immunities to it and dealing with it. And when you look at the curve models, not locking down got this thing over and out in half the time. We\u2019re never told 98% of the people who get it survive. It\u2019s a long story in The Spectator, much too long for me to read to you, but it\u2019s chock-full of evidence by people in Sweden that their way of dealing with this, not locking down, is by far the smartest way to deal with it because there\u2019s nothing they can do to stop the spread anyway. Nobody can right now. There isn\u2019t a vaccine.<\/p>\n

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\"\"RUSH: Here\u2019s a little stat for you. Can do with it what you want. Sweden and Michigan have roughly the same population. It\u2019s close enough for comparative purposes. Michigan has an autocrat for a governor who is refusing to allow the people in that state to practically do anything. It\u2019s locked down like you can\u2019t believe. It\u2019s one of the states where people are protesting the degree to which Michigan is locked down.<\/p>\n

Michigan has 1,000 more deaths from coronavirus than Sweden, which hasn\u2019t locked down or shut down anything. Now, you can do with those numbers what you want, including accusing me of using them out of context. I don\u2019t think I am. It just boils down to I\u2019ve not seen this ever work as a means of stopping, defeating a virus or, over the long term, keeping people from getting it, keeping people healthy. This is just gonna prolong the inevitable while doing damage that theoretically no president could ever get reelected having presided over, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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