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Originally Posted by priffe
Looking at the curves UK has nothing to teach anyone.
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You're right there, anyway. My country's government has handled the pandemic among the worst in the world, succeeding in achieving not only one of the world's highest per-capita death rates but also among the worst economic slumps. This isn't because they have locked down, it's because they have consistently locked down late and lite after long spells complacently allowing mixing in public places, schools and workplaces. Our latest lockdown came on 4 January after watching a rapid increase in infections and doing nothing since September. When you don't have an effective test/trace/isolate system in place to control the virus at low levels your only weapon is to forcibly keep people apart, hopefully before it becomes a crisis.
You say "nobody knows" why Sweden has done worse than its neighbours, with all due respect sir, everybody knows. Voluntary measures do not work. Frankly I'd much rather have gone down the path of Australia and New Zealand, strict control of contact to reduce transmissions then trace and act on every case. Result, no national crisis, healthy economies and fewer dead. The UK is about to pass the milestone of 100,000 dead, our government has nothing to teach anybody but some of us can see how it could and should have done so much better.
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