Except for the failure to protect nursing home residents in Stockholm, the country has done well without a lockdown. For example, day care centers and schools were never closed for children aged one to fifteen, with zero COVID-19 deaths as a result and only a few hospitalizations. Moreover, teachers faced the same risk as the average among other professions. COVID-19 mortality is now close to zero in Sweden, and the United States has now passed Sweden in terms of deaths per million inhabitants, despite Sweden having an older, more high-risk population.

The Swedish age-targeted approach is similar to the strategy used in South Dakota and the current strategy in Florida. It is the opposite of the strategies employed in New York and Massachusetts, where low-risk children are prevented from going to school and low-risk young professionals protect themselves by working from home, while older working-class people must go to work to feed their families, and where elderly infected patients were sent to nursing homes to infect other high-risk residents.

This strategy has caused enormous harm to the working class, especially the urban working class, since infectious diseases tend to affect urban areas more harshly than rural areas.

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Yes, I think the lockdown is the worst assault on the working class in half a century, and especially on the urban working class. In effect, we are protecting low-risk college students and young professionals who can work from home at the expense of older, high-risk, working-class people that have no choice but to work, leading to more deaths overall. There have been studies, for example in Toronto, that show that lockdowns have primarily protected high-income, low-minority neighborhoods, but not low-income or high-minority neighborhoods.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40951761)

It shouldn't surprise us that bloodthirsty shitlibs have a long social heritage of marketing - since the most oppressive / bloody rule during the revo was done by their "Committee of Public Safety"....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40952822)

the anger in the air was palpable.

sometimes it's little things.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40952091)

Yeah, no. Not interested in allying with these people

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40952277)

it's really happening

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1307702726197944320

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40958122)

Thinking more broadly about the raging debates about how best to handle the economic and social fallout of the coronavirus, it is striking how politicized the discussion is in the United States.

Yes, the discussion of COVID-19 policy has become polarized into two camps, with most liberals advocating some form of lockdown and people on the Right arguing to open up. It is difficult to insert a reasoned argument into the debate without being categorized as taking one of these unnuanced positions and then being dismissed or actively vilified by “the other side.”

It is unfortunate that the Right has so easily been able to appropriate the anti-lockdown position as their own, which conceivably has gained them supporters in the fraught political arena. Their motivation, for the most part, has been to protect the economy, not public health. But their stance appeals to a wide range of people who have been hurt by the lockdown.

Liberal elites, including the Democratic Party establishment, have actively ceded this terrain, instead emphasizing the importance of lowering infection rates (across the board) until a vaccine becomes generally available. I think the liberal elites’ adoption of this approach stems from the easy appeal of keeping “everyone” safe together with a class position for which the lockdown strategy is in fact safer as well as quite easy to ride out. Liberal elites simply can’t see or can’t feel how this strategy continues to fail the working class and also small business owners.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#40958343)

Libs mad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4628760&forum_id=2#41077956)