Thread by @edalmaxwell

"Sweden never aimed at herd immunity", a thread (1/n)

Herd immunity in April/no, in May/no, in June/no, when the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the Lonely Mountain (2/n)

"Herd immunity can be more effective than a vaccine" (3/n)

Strategy (4/n)

(a personal fav of mine) "goal = herd immunity" literally in the middle of a slide (5/n)

First effects of herd immunity in April, according to Tegnell (6/n)

Very promising (7/n)

Ok, maybe a bit later on (8/n)

Ok, maybe a bit later on (9/n)

Ok, maybe a bit later on (10/n)

"the people who are frail and old will die first. And when that group of people is sort of thinned out, you will get less deaths as well" (Johan Giesecke, min 10:02) (11/n)

"I think the virus will sweep like a storm over Sweden and infect basically everyone in one or two months (..) It will end when enough people get infected and then immune, so that the virus has nowhere to go (the so called 'herd immunity')" (Johan Giesecke, March 13th) (12/n)

"Almost all Norrbotten residents will be affected by the coronavirus in some form before flock immunity arises", according to infection control doctor Anders Nystedt. svt.se/nyheter/lokalt… (13/n)

"The Swedish slogan should be 'Get infected at the right pace' " (March 27th) (14/n)

(Swedish ambassador to the US, min. 3:20) "right now we know that Stockholm has about 25% of herd immunity" (whatever that's supposed to mean) video.foxnews.com/v/615483218100… (15/n)

"Herd immunity is how you control the pandemic" (prof. Matti Sällberg in March) (16/n)

"And that's when we approach flock immunity" (Tom Britton, April 20th) (17/n)

"One point in favor of keeping schools open is that we would reach herd immunity faster" (Anders Tegnell, March 14th) (thanks to @marteneriksson & @paulaclp for the contribution)
(18/n)

"I think all countries, all epidemiologists you talk to will agree that herd immunity is the one thing that will eventually slow down the spread of this virus, nothing else will slow it down in the long term" (min 1:06) (19/n)

"This is how we succeed with herd immunity", Jan Albert, April 24th (20/n)

"It is not possible to stop an airborne infection. It will only end once we have achieved herd immunity"
J. Giesecke, April 19th

4 months later the official FHM guidelines still claim that "the most common way of spreading infection is through our hands"

(via @lo_malin) (21/n)

Option 1: 4 weeks lockdown
Option 2: track, trace, quarantine
Option 3: let the virus spread to achieve an hypothetical herd immunity

"We evaluated all options and ultimately chose option n.3"
(Anders Tegnell, March 15th 2020)

(22/n)

"Today on DN (Swedish daily) they apparently deny that herd immunity exists. The whole world went crazy"

Anders Tegnell, March 19th 2020

(23/n)