Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
Sweden has one of the highest death rates in the world and they have paid a price.
This isn't a one size fits all scenario.
Every country has a different social, economic and healthcare demographic.
Sweden has 10M people, the city of London alone has almost that many. 1/33 of the US population.
During the last month people seems to have got tired on the voluntary social distancing. Shopping malls are crowded, bussiness as usual and at pubs and resturants there is to many people(max 50 allowed) so the authorities try to hunt and is threatening to shut down the places not following the laws/guide lines. The authorities do not find all violations so....
This means more people is getting covid and now there is increasing numbers of people taken into hospital for Covid care in some regions.
There was a lot of talk about heard immunity even from the authorities earlier but after some critism they say ”we never tried to go there”, but the strategy has not been clear at all so no one really knows. Yes, it has been less hard on the economy but at a cost of around 10 times the dead per capita compared to the neighbour countries. If letting several thousand people die is a acceptable cost for a less hit on the economy, then yes Sweden is doing right.
I believe that during the first months it was possible to have some kind of voluntary distancing but when ppl get tired of it, and the summer comes....
We can see that the total cases number have a steady rise in Sweden but most other countries in Europe have flattening curves of total numbers. Still, Sweden only reports confirmed tests and despite being in ten in top on most aspects, we are only at place 56 when it comes to total testa performed. The authorities have tried to thwart testing by all means, most common comment has been ”tests, for what purpose”.
New daily cases are on a rather steady level, not really decreasing. Death tolls per week isnt decreasing that fast either.
(reference to worldometer)