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As the rest of Europe lives under lockdown, Sweden keeps calm and carries on
All its neighbours have shut up shop to beat coronavirus but the Swedes insist âwe are not in quarantineâ. Is that the right approach?
www.theguardian.com
Very interesting.
It has only been in the past couple of days that the death toll has started to increase significantly, rising by a third in a single day on Thursday and Friday, with 92 people now dead and 209 in intensive care. As he announced the tighter restrictions on Friday, the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, warned that the coming weeks and months would be tough.
But he defended the decision not to implement the tighter restrictions seen in Denmark, France and the UK. âWe all, as individuals, have to take responsibility. We canât legislate and ban everything,â he said. âIt is also a question of commonsense behaviour.â
Anders Tegnell, Swedenâs state epidemiologist, believes it is counterproductive to bring in the tightest restrictions at too early a stage. âAs long as the Swedish epidemic development stays at this level,â he tells the Observer, âI donât see any big reason to take measures that you can only keep up for a very limited amount of time.â
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It's always good to see another take on the experiment.
I think Italy, France, Spain are in lockdown and their cases are going way way up.....If they turn soon...great.
We'll know something.
But unless Sweden gets really sick...we'll know something else.