re: Boris Johnson to announce UK lockdown

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I'm not sure why people prop up Sweden in either direction. They haven't done it better than everyone else based on deaths per 1M, and they haven't done it worse than everyone else by not locking down. They've just been in the middle, not good/not bad. Now you can certainly argue not locking down and remaining middle ground is the way to go to save your economy, I'd agree. But they haven't outperformed all these other countries like many seem to insinuate.

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That is the other aide of the argument, the balance. “Performance” is function of more than one variable, you are downplaying the bolder one.