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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1218794)

4/9/2020 7:17:53 PM

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I'm sorry. I'll try not to let it happen again.

Speaking of Greta,

Sweden’s government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire.
Critics say the government seeks “herd immunity” from the coronavirus. That could lead to more deaths.

By Alex Ward @AlexWardVox alex.wrd@vox.com
Apr 9, 2020, 8:40am EDT

Sweden’s lax coronavirus approach could put its people in dangerKnowing that events were capped at 500 people, organizers purposely sold 499 tickets to customers. Some older people, feeling little pressure from authorities, continued to go out into busy public squares. And bars, a central hangout spot for many young people in Stockholm, still served patrons deep into the night.

“Is it really that damn bad?” Sandra Bergkvist, a 28-year-old grocery clerk in Sweden, asked in an interview with the Washington Post this month while drinking beer with friends. “Of course we’re worried about people in the risk groups, but if it wasn’t for media it wouldn’t have been this hysterical.”

That nonchalance may have led to the country’s worsening coronavirus numbers.

The number of confirmed Swedish Covid-19 deaths has risen to more than 650*, as of April 9. That brought the death rate per million in Sweden — Scandinavia’s biggest economy — to about 65*. By comparison, Denmark’s rate was near 40 while Norway’s was near 20.

And Sweden’s numbers are likely to get even worse: One-third of all of Stockholm’s nursing homes have at least one case of the coronavirus.

In response, the government has taken some important steps, such as restricting gatherings at outside venues to 50 people and telling those at restaurants to sit only at tables, not stand crowded around the bar. It’s also seeking extraordinary powers to impose further measures, which could lead to forced closures of business, schools, airports, railways, and more. The military is also setting up a field hospital in a major conference center in the capital.

“The government is ready to adopt stricter measures to combat the virus whenever we consider it necessary,” Hallengren said.

But virologist Söderberg-Nauclér isn’t buying it: “It’s too late to try and stop” a larger outbreak, she told me.

Which means many Swedes are now potentially at risk of contracting the deadly virus who wouldn’t have been had the government imposed these measures much sooner.

vox.com

* currently, 793 deaths, 79 deaths/M; we have 50/M.

worldometers.info