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Re: Getting Back to Work

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Sweden has a rather different welfare system, typical population density, income distribution, typical household demographic, urban planning and culture regarding social interactions, compared to many places that would use it as an example for what to do in this crisis. I think following the available evidence, interpreted by experts is the way to go. Ultimately the argument for Sweden's policy seems to be less based…

Sweden's strategy is also unique in the world and failing badly at protecting some of their most vulnerable citizens. It's also based on unproven ideas, like immunity from Covid19 after you get it once.

I don't know that any ideas are "proven". Evidence based medicine works on just that:evidence. The hypothesis that you do not get immunity, given the evidence from all previously observed cases of coronaviruses is the least likely. Why would you then act as if it were true?

Re: Getting Back to Work

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Productivity in the US is considerably higher than most, if not all of those countries, when you account for productivity per hour and hours worked: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/v/s/www.forbes.c... Unemployment just tells you people have a job, and nothing about how much that job is contributing to the collective resources.

What does productivity have to do with people's choice of working or not? We were discussing whether people need encouraging to go to work or not. Productivity is a completely different metric, impacted by many other things.

Productivity is a part of the metric which you base that decision on. Do people need encouragement == will we produce 'enough' with less encouragement || is the long term reduction in production, and it's effect on future generations worth the increase in leisure time now.
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