July 9, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
02:09
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| Let's take a challenge here from Michael in Adrian, Michigan. | |
| Hi. | |
| Well, I was just commenting back, you were talking about Sweden versus United States and the lockdown method and so on, and I disagree with America's method of lockdown as well, but Sweden hasn't got it all right either. | |
| Sweden's death rate per capita is about 35% higher than ours. | |
| Right, and it's about 35% lower than the number of European countries. | |
| Yeah, depending on what you compare. | |
| They vary. | |
| Alright, so obviously depending on what you compare, it varies. | |
| I agree. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| I mean, it's neighboring countries, Finland and Norway. | |
| Let's say that... | |
| Let's say we would have had 40% more deaths in America than we had, or 35% more, and the country would not have devastated its economy and locked people down and stopped education and so on. | |
| So the question is, would it be worth it? | |
| I think you could have both. | |
| I think the lockdown was wrong in the way they handled it. | |
| Rather than a complete lockdown, it should have been targeted. | |
| Right. | |
| Well, to a large extent, that's what Sweden did. | |
| I mean, the elderly did stay at home. | |
| Look, I'm only letting you go because we only have a minute. | |
| The vast, well, not the vast majority, but half the deaths in Sweden were in old-age homes, were in senior citizen homes. | |
| Nursing home. | |
| 40% of the US deaths, to the best of my knowledge, certainly in New York, were in nursing home. | |
| Doesn't make this any less of a tragedy in every individual case. | |
| But it does not call for kids not to be at school. |
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