{"id":176604,"date":"2020-05-07T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/07\/well-duh-dumbass\/"},"modified":"2020-05-07T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:23:00","slug":"well-duh-dumbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/07\/well-duh-dumbass\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Duh, Dumbass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The person running Sweden&#8217;s Covid-19 hands-off response is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-chief-says-high-death-toll-was-surprise-2020-5\">surprised that the death toll is spiking<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The man leading Sweden&#8217;s coronavirus response says the country&#8217;s elevated death toll &#8220;really came as a surprise to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden&#8217;s state epidemiologist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ypwoyVl5Dxk&amp;feature=emb_title\">appeared on &#8220;The Daily Show with Trevor Noah&#8221; on Tuesday<\/a>, when he described the country&#8217;s controversial approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never really calculated with a high death toll initially, I must say,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We calculated on more people being sick, but the death toll really came as a surprise to us.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, Sweden reported more than 2,700 COVID-19 deaths and more than 23,000 infections. That death toll is far higher than its Nordic neighbors&#8217; and many other countries that locked down.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was pretty much a lead pipe cinch from day one.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 is ferociously contagious, and not particularly amenable to treatment,&nbsp; so if you have more cases, you have more deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Q.E.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person running Sweden&#8217;s Covid-19 hands-off response is surprised that the death toll is spiking: The man leading Sweden&#8217;s coronavirus response says the country&#8217;s elevated death toll &#8220;really came as a surprise to us.&#8221; Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden&#8217;s state epidemiologist, appeared on &#8220;The Daily Show with Trevor Noah&#8221; on Tuesday, when he described the country&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-176604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}