About four week ago, when cases in the state and in our county were dropping steadily, I wrote an article about the two competing strategies for dealing with an epidemic. I called one the “stop-the-spread-at-all-costs model” and the other one the “herd-immunity” model. For simplicity’s sake we can call the former the “shutdown” model and the latter the “Sweden” model – given that Sweden, alone of all the industrialized nations... Read More