• Yeah, there and Germany likely to give the best impression of the real infection and mortality rates. Until then I think it would be callous of the Government not to err on the side of caution.

    I watched the interview with Sweden's advisor posted a couple of days ago and what he says regarding 'total number of deaths will be the same over time, so maybe some people here die sooner but our figures will equal other countries eventually' makes sense to a point but it's also a bit of a gamble, and he admitted that their strategy to protect vulnerable people but let it pass through the younger population has failed straight off the bat (supposedly because of immigrants working in care homes). So yeah, all just sounded a bit cynical.

  • FFS because of immigrants, really? Sigh...

    Unless they have super good PPS for everyone, and super cleaning in care homes it just spreads as people are packed closed together. Immigrants or not, you just need the one person.

    'total number of deaths will be the same over time, so maybe some people here die sooner but our figures will equal other countries eventually' I doubt that I have to say.

    If the Swedish population consents to this, OK. But so far Germany/SK do much better, and sure, you can apply the "you have to die of something" strategy, but this is a virus, not general old age/wear and tear.

  • He said it was due to language barriers maybe not getting official government information through clear enough. Lack of success in isolating care homes elsewhere implies it's not necessarily the real issue.

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