Thread by @StillDelvingH

Sweden's strategy in a nutshell, as emulated by UK govt
(From May 2020, article by strategy architect Johan Giesecke -The man who hired Tegnell)
"The battle is lost"
@chrischirp @dgurdasani1 @carolecadwalla

https://twitter.com/StillDelvingH/status/1455587385568342017

Note this is based on the "marvelled" theory that herd immunity was to be reached once everyone was infected, because (that's another article: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…) potential providential immunity we can't see, nor understand would kick in.

I get the will to believe infection would provide immunity, but use that hypothesis as a base for a "take it on the chin" strategy when no long term observation was available and the virus -as a virus- was susceptible to mutate, that I can't get.

After looking at Johan Giesecke's other work for WHO-, I may have a theory tho.
I think Mr Giesecke may have thought a few million deaths were a small price to pay, opposed to the fear that "authoritarian measures" would make the public lose confindence in health authorities

That may explain why he toured the world, from India to Ireland, UK aso to oppose stringent, potentially unpopular measures
Just a theory
Also killing grandma when masks would have saved her isn't a great way to enforce condidence in health authorities
inc.in/congress-sande…

(f**k I can't write "confidence" today)
(damned typos)
Anyway it's late to turn the tide but still better to do it now instead of doing f**k all
Because that "potentially worse pandemic that would require stringent measures" may be brewing now in mass spread/variant factories