I can't believe Sweden fared so well. Are you telling me that @[DRM](user:130312) was right all along and the world never should have gone into lockdowns???

So Mr. DRM, you saw a video on YouTube saying it was safe to send kids back to school, so it must be true?

Surprising. I would have thought it would be much higher. But it's all relative. Almost 1k dead is still a major loss. Imagine if there was a terrorist attack with that many dead. It would be huge news. Remember 9/11?

I have to disagree with you here DRM. Many children have died from COVID-19. Yes, they are in the minority, but what kind of parents wants to take that kind of risk? Plus a very high percentage of children with COVID develop Multisystem inflammatory syndrome which can cause long term damage.

Yes, I will say this new information certainly puts things into a different perspective for me. But I do think we need to find a way to keep the economy open AND keep people safe. I think wearing masks and being socially distant should be mandatory everywhere in the US. The people who refuse to wear a mask just seem crazy to me.

It seems that Joseph may have been right that more people could die from hunger induced by the pandemic, than from the pandemic itself:

edition.cnn.com/.../index.html

Why are you talking about a 2nd wave when the first wave never ended?

If this proves true, I owe @[DRM](user:130312) an apology.

Yes, and the answer is Trump - he likes to pretend Covid-19 isn't a danger and we can will it away by ignoring it. But not every state is as bad as Texas. I heard on the news this morning that Illinois has mandatory face mask wearing and as a result, they have been able to open up again without an increase in infections.

What a lot of people forget is that a large number of people who are infected, but don't die, never fully recover. Some stay sick for months, or have permanent damage. A recent report out of Israel said that 40% of those hospitalized and discharged had permanent damage to the right side of their hearts.