Lockdowns and masks don't work? Let's go ask New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and other countries about that. The Lesson: Countries which attempt lockdowns but fail to properly implement their lockdowns with contract tracing and testing along with a phased re-opening fail --- and will endure broad re-infections. The degree of failure correlates with how far their public health policy deviated from best practices. However even worse are countries that simply let the virus run wild in the fantasy that they would achieve "natural herd immunity".
Yeah, Facebook shit but.. Swedes know they are on the shit list of their peers, time to show a little normality.
More to that...many countries were able to flatten the curve for Covid-19 as in they dramatically reduced deaths, reduced hospitalizations and reduced infections for a sustainable number of days. One of those countries was the United States. Yet, the U.S. screwed up the re-opening process in which many states followed their own guidelines (ignoring the CDC guidelines) and some states used "no guidelines"...they just re-open. Simply, the re-opening process failed in the United States but the Lockdown was highly successful in shutting down Covid-19. wrbtrader
You are so duplicitous and simple minded... gwBe-lying. -- Although Japan is commonly perceived as a nation where a strong state leads a pliable public that is deferential to authority, the most notable aspect of Japan's coronavirus policy is the priority placed on individual rights over the protection of public health, resulting in a limited lockdown and spotty compliance ...Jun 10, 2020 Did Japan's Lenient Lockdown Conquer the Coronavirus ... Australia - Island New Zealand - Island Taiwan - Island South Korea - Peninsula - but since N.K. is on top - Island
This is SO DUMB. Island Island Island Island Island You listed 5 fucking islands. I notice Germany has been removed from your list...conveniently. All those other countries are directly and always in the crosshairs of some Fucking Chinese flu and are always ready for it. Japan, Korea, Taiwan have ZERO trust of the Chinese and so when the fucking Dinks came out and said COVID wasn’t a big deal, they all panicked and shut down. Asians genetically may be less susceptible to the virus... OZ and NZ also shut their islands down for 100 days and the virus still came back. Looking forward to Jacinda declaring victory over covid for the 3rd time. Dude, you just have no explanation for why Sweden is 25th worldwide in deaths per 100k...when they didn’t shut down a damn thing.
Stockholm, Sweden's Largest City, Has Only Seven ICU Beds Free Amid COVID Surge https://www.newsweek.com/stockholm-sweden-lockdown-icu-beds-covid-surge-1553579 Intensive care unit beds in Stockholm hospitals have hit 99% capacity for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday, there were only five to seven, out of a total of 160, intensive care places open in the Stockholm Region, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported. Bjorn Eriksson, Stockholm's health director, reportedly told a news conference on Wednesday that the situation is "very serious" and that the city has been hit "considerably harder" than other metropolitan regions. He said: "We have mobilized everything we could and taken to everything we had to offer so that everyone will get the care they need. We now need to continue to do our utmost, all actors in society as a whole, to offer resistance to the virus and the pandemic." Throughout the pandemic, Sweden had mainly taken a controversial anti-lockdown and herd immunity approach. But cases began to surge in September, and the country has begun to bring in stricter guidelines over the last few weeks. However, Eriksson told the press conference that the recent surge shows there has been too much contact between the city's residents. He said: "It was exactly this development that we did not want to see. "It shows that we Stockholmers have been crowded too much and had too many contacts outside the household where we left. "Healthcare is now under so much pressure that there are no major margins in the healthcare system." Overwhelmed hospitals Björn Persson, operations manager for intensive care at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, told the newspaper Dagens Nyheter that if more patients arrive than the ICUs can cater for, staff will have to find a place for them elsewhere. Persson also said that such a high occupancy risk raises the threshold for intensive care so that people who would normally be given a place will not get one. He described the situation as very strained, with 89 COVID patients alone in intensive care places and a total of 825 COVID patients in emergency care. Persson also said that staffing is also overstrained at the hospital and they have had to have reinforcements of ICU staff from Blekinge—a county in the south of the country. He said: "But we have already done that as much as possible. Then we have to call in staff to work overtime, or keep staff who are just leaving their shifts." The Stockholm Region authorities told Aftonbladet in an email: "Karolinska and Södersjukhuset, respectively, are opening up intermediate care places. "It is very strenuous but there is capacity and expansion is underway." Sweden's approach to lockdown Early on in the pandemic, Sweden emerged as an outlier to other countries trying to stem the COVID spread by issuing "stay-at-home" orders and closing schools, workplaces and international borders. The country instead chose to follow the argument for herd immunity and relied on citizens to voluntarily follow precautions like social distancing. But by late June, its coronavirus death toll had far exceeded that of neighboring countries. Sweden had been more than 5,300 fatalities compared to around 250 in Norway, 600 in Denmark and 325 in Finland—albeit with populations of around half the size. In October, the country began to impose much stricter measures as cases continued to soar. By November, Sweden was continually setting daily records for new cases. The country introduced a partial lockdown on bars and restaurants by banning the sale of alcohol after 10 p.m from November 20. Sweden also put five of its 21 regions under stricter guidelines that urge the public to social distance, not to attend or throw parties, avoid indoor locations and avoid unnecessary trips on public transport. Last week, Prime minister Stefan Lofven also announced that high schools would switch to distance learning for the rest of the year. However, the Swedish Health Agency—largely behind Sweden's no-lockdown strategy— said last week that it would continue to refrain from recommending masks. It came after the World Health Organisation said that, where the epidemic was spreading, people should always wear masks in indoor spaces that lack adequate ventilation.