On April 26, 2020 former Swedish State Epidemiologist Professor Johan Giesecke spoke with Sky News Australia and warned, like also Dr Kulldorff, that a major lockdown would simply destroy the economy and leave the population without herd immunity and permanently vulnerable to future COVID-19 outbreaks. [1, 2]
Data out of Sweden, which didn’t lockdown but put in place measures to protect the vulnerable – the elderly and frail, said:
Most people will become infected by this and most people won’t even notice. We have data now from Sweden that shows that between 98 and 99% of the cases have had a very mild infection or didn’t even realise they were infected.…The real outbreak is happening where we don’t see it.”
When counties like Australia and New Zealand open up from lockdown you will have more cases. Dr Giesecke says real infection fatality rate is unknown but it is around 0.1% – like maybe a “severe influenza” he says.
The Swedish model has two pillars he said, we only use measures that are evidence based (i.e. washing hands) and social distancing, and the third measure maybe “trust people”.