Quality of life or death? I don't know what a hell you are talking about... Is there any quality in dying alone, without relatives, without funerals? While an unelected political advisor travel the country up and down while having symptoms? What quality of life do you refer to with plastic imported food and the only decent weather in decades during a lockdown? I understand we all have different standards...
Maybe you were mocking me being from Europe... But I never defended our politicians strategy. And I think Brexit is bad. Uk and Sweden are top 6 globally in dpm. I still don't understand your post. But I hope you are not mocking coming from the USA... Because there is really nothing to mock about if you are in trumpland.
What's not to understand? That you have numbers exceeding those of Sweden? And their people can enjoy life the way they used to for the most part. https://www.thelocal.se/20200520/as...kdown-what-lessons-can-be-learned-from-sweden of the 2 Socialist Monarchy states they are in much better shape. Germany and Japan are true stand-outs though... it's OK to be unable to understand, all the stress...certainly... You still don't understand?
Norway 44 dpm Finland 57 dpm Denmark 99 dpm But Sweden wins 435 dpm, 10 times more than Norway, 7 times more than Finland and 4 times more than Denmark. And these are all countries from the same area. The result of the UK is an "achievement from Boris Johnson", a simple journalist who has no clue about finances or economy. And apparently also no clue about healthcare either.
Nah, it was about the quality of life of those keeping up with the daily life they mostly enjoy in Sweden vs those living in a locked down country. About weather and quarantine in Madrid it was the complete opposite, medias claim during the first 40 days of quarantine (strictest in Europe, a large scale dehumanisation of the population, much of it willing btw ) Spain had the least hours of sun of all european countries. Quite unusual and sun is back in force with max temperatures hovering around 30°C here. Deescalation life is so far quite miserable btw, although definitely less hellish than the lockdown
U do although individually very little, when a large part ,possibly the majority of a population reveals itself as scared folks begging and crying for lockdowns, the governments are likely to indulge them. Medias sure didn t help on this one, much has been propaganda for a while, albeit now more opinions are being shared
I think a lot of people that are in countries with lockdowns or had been in lockdowns and now re-opening... Many were just fine (e.g. people already working from home, recluses, people living in rural areas, people that don't listen to health experts and so on). In contrast, people not liking the lockdown (e.g. lost their jobs, hate working at home, couldn't go to the salon, get a hamburger from the fast food joint, had to wash hands/social distancing, hate all the media coverage about being controlled by their government and so on). My point, within each country...there's people just fine with the lockdown and people not fine with it. Heck, I have a friend that needed a 2 month leave of absence (he hates his job) just to rest...boss declined. Then he got what he needed 3 weeks later...government lockdown, job closed and he's still getting paid. Simply, lockdown has been helpful for some people to reset their life. Personally, the lockdown has not impacted my work schedule (I'm a full time trader) except I don't like the fact that some of the non-essential government offices are closed because I had just applied for new passports for my kids. Thus, I'm not sure where the governments (France, Canada and U.S.) are at in the processing of those passports. Also, not able to see my girlfriend (an emergency nurse) has been tough because of her long hours at the hospital taking care of the sick. Yet, Facetime and every few days of talking to her while she's on the balcony (2nd floor) and I'm outside on the sidewalk has been Ok so far...late night titty show helps too. wrbtrader
Norway wondering whether it should have been more like Sweden. Norway prime minister explaining that the lockdown came at too high a cost, not only economically (many people seem to miss the non financial issues raised by the lockdown) and that they won t go for school closures and national lockdown in the case of a second wave, all possible with only 0.7% of the population estimated to have been infected: https://us.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-norway-wonders-more-sweden-153503886.html
Surely we won't know the best policy for a year or two , and even then it will be with the benefit of hindsight , if a vaccine arrives in next few month's Sweden will probably look foolish , if it doesn't , then less so.