The thing Swift has over Rust is a laser focus on language ergonomics. This is what really sells me on the language. It makes it extremely expressive and clear.
Its neighbours have managed death rates of nearly one TENTH of Sweden. The difference in timing of the outbreaks was one or two weeks. That certainly should not account for a factor of ten difference.
And yes, some number of deaths is inevitable. That does not mean that every life saved isn't still a life saved. There is not a set quota of deaths that will inevitably happen, and you can choose to have them happen sooner rather than later. Any extra deaths will mostly be on top of the number of unpreventable deaths.
> Its neighbours have managed death rates of nearly one TENTH of Sweden. The difference in timing of the outbreaks was one or two weeks. That certainly should not account for a factor of ten difference.
How can you be so certain of that, considering the dynamics of the infection rate are exponential. If you look at the curve for the Netherlands it went from 'nothing serious, its just 1 or 2 hospitalizations a day' to full-blown 'within 10 days all hospitals will be overloaded'-panic literally within one week. Add one 'super-spreader' event into the mix like the soccer match in north Italy and you create a huge spike that is only seen two weeks later when its already too late.
The exact same thing happened in all of the countries that had the longest lead time between 'nothing to see here' and 'this is really bad we have to do something', the shapes of the excess deaths graphs for these countries are all the same, lock-down or no lock-down. Which makes sense because these were the result of not doing anything for weeks because no-one was taking this seriously yet. I think you cannot just point to the numbers now and conclude the policy in Sweden is to blame for their high numbers of deaths. Especially not considering countries have been opening up for ~3 weeks now, moving more towards the model Sweden has had since day one, and so far no effect on infections or hospitalizations have been observed.
> Especially not considering countries have been opening up for ~3 weeks now, moving more towards the model Sweden has had since day one, and so far no effect on infections or hospitalizations have been observed.
This did not happen automatically. This happens because those countries first got infections under control, and put systems in place to keep them under control.
"The Valley's ideology" is to drag your feet, do as little as humanly possible, and to make vapid appeals to freedom of speech rather than do anything about rampant, massive-scale abuse of their services causing real and actual harm to people and society in general.
I know this isn't what you intended to say but it what your statement implies is that everyone who disagrees is uncaring, idiotic, or evil. It might do you well to spend some time finding people to respect on the other side and listen to why they advocate for things you find so distasteful.
I am trying to follow this supposed implication but I don't see the jump from "the valley" to "everyone who disagrees" and also from "dragging feet" and "making vapid appeals" to "idiotic and evil".
I will agree it's a bit of a stretch and I pattern matched to other arguments I have seen but "massive-scale abuse" and "real and actual harm" is language that presupposes a negative moral judgement about what is happening.
You think it is worth debating whether massive troll farms spreading misinformation and stoking hatred and division on a nation-state scale is good or bad?
He is not a credible source on this, or pretty much anything else. He has some utterly reprehensible views, and is part of a very questionable cult of self-important people.
Meh. I have never heard of him before, but he has a clearly expressed idea which isn't completely unreasonable. I evaluated the idea on its own merits, and that's where I found it lacking. The man matters nothing to me, only his idea.
I submit that this is the only reasonable way of evaluating ideas. We can't all be perfect for all time in history.
Edit. Having now read your link, I am less interested in following his blog, but my analysis of his proposal is unchanged knowing more about him.
