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Originally Posted by sceptic
The Swedish plan would never have worked in (most of) the UK though, because the population density is too high.
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It depends what you mean by "worked". The disease isn't really that dangerous to younger people.
For the period where the detailed data has been released, covering the first 13,214 or so deaths, 384 (2.9%) where under 45. Over 50% of the reported deaths are over 85 years old.
Once you discount the people with underlying conditions, who would have been told to isolate in any case, and have been told to do in Sweden, you are left with a tiny number of deaths.