COVID - Something has to change

[celticknight]

It's beginning to look like Sweden had it right all along.

Sweden being held up as the poster child for "Herd Immunity" by the right wing media with it's 'get back to work, plebs!" agenda really isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Aside from the fact it's geographic and social make-up is radically different to the the UK to the point they're not comparable, you also have factors like lack of testing (they test in a week what the UK does in a day), they have the most deaths of the Scandinavian countries and Swedes are probably more likely to social distance than the "no mask" idiots and pissheads in the pubs over here.

[NYCBlue]

Sweden being held up as the poster child for "Herd Immunity" by the right wing media with it's 'get back to work, plebs!" agenda really isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Aside from the fact it's geographic and social make-up is radically different to the the UK to the point they're not comparable, you also have factors like lack of testing (they test in a week what the UK does in a day), they have the most deaths of the Scandinavian countries and Swedes are probably more likely to social distance than the "no mask" idiots and pissheads in the pubs over here.

Quite. Added to that, Sweden is twice the size of the UK with about 15% of its population. Its three biggest cities combined population is less than that of Manchester. It also has a better standard of living. With those advantages in mind, I'd say the herd immunity experiment has been a failure. To try it in the UK would be disastrous. If the UK goverment is worried about a new spike, the country should go back into full lockdown.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Quite. Added to that, Sweden is twice the size of the UK with about 15% of its population. Its three biggest cities combined population is less than that of Manchester. It also has a better standard of living. With those advantages in mind, I'd say the herd immunity experiment has been a failure. To try it in the UK would be disastrous. If the UK goverment is worried about a new spike, the country should go back into full lockdown.

Absolutely. Sweden has been far from the free-for-all that it seems to have been portrayed over here.

[Bluebina]

Quite. Added to that, Sweden is twice the size of the UK with about 15% of its population. Its three biggest cities combined population is less than that of Manchester. It also has a better standard of living. With those advantages in mind, I'd say the herd immunity experiment has been a failure. To try it in the UK would be disastrous. If the UK goverment is worried about a new spike, the country should go back into full lockdown.

I didn't read this post before replying, but spot on!