Quote Originally Posted by jpbro View Post
I suspect that we won't know which decisions were right and which were wrong - nor the full impact of those decisions - for years.
Though still you're making comparisons anyways...

I'm quite convinced, that over the next months and years, nearly everyone will catch the disease at least once.

Sweden is just ahead of Canada in terms of "infections over the populace" (percentually).

And they seem to do quite a bit better than Canada, in "handling them, when they happen"
(the case/fatality ratio is 1.3% in Sweden and 1.7% in Canada).

So, you are right - at this point we just cannot know (and shouldn't "judge" too soon)...

Nobody doubts, that the vaccine is lowering the risk of becoming a "fatal case"...
Currently...

Though IMO - it could very well be, that the "more risky, but then much stronger" -
natural immune-response of an unvaccinated person (when non-fatal), might offer
a much better over-all protection over the long haul (say, the next two years)...
in terms of "final fatality-risk", compared to a multi-vaccinated specimen.

Olaf