[ptx]

Perhaps it didn't make sense in the beginning, when outbreaks are sparse, but now that it's spread everywhere and it's a matter of suppressing it, that changes things, doesn't it?

If you start with 10 cases and immediately take action like Taiwan, you have 7 dead. If you start with 10 cases and do nothing like Sweden, you have 4500 dead.

[svrtknst]

Sweden hasn't "done nothing", please don't make things up.

[new2628]

In some cases they did worse than nothing, like when advising people not to wear masks.