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Yeah I was using Sweden as an example trying to explain this to someone I work withbthe other day, but they just don't want to get it.Aye, and posters on here and around Europe are desperate to demonize us in Sweden for not locking down yet, but every single day we are reminded at the 14:00 press conference by the health ministry (it’s not the government running the show here), that there are only two ways out of this and anything we do such as social distancing, working from home, sick leave extended with no doctors note etc etc etc has to be able to work for months. They cannot believe countries are “locking down” early because of the adverse effects and the end game. If you have a stable number of people going into ICU, what is locking down achieving? A vaccine won’t be here in 3 weeks.
But the situations in Italy and Spain have understandably made people shit the bed. And now you’ve got daft things going on in the UK that defy all logic, like police drones shaming people for being out for a hike in the Peak District with not another person in sight. How the feck does that help stopping Covid-19? Lots of people have lost sight of what is trying to be achieved here.
I predict anarchy in Southern Italy within the next month.
India is already a total cluster feck.
I'm not sure of the full picture either but from what I can tell there's little evidence so far that lock down measures are helping that much compared to the approach in Sweden. Last I checked the percentage of people confirmed as testing positive in Sweden was higher than here, yet the percentage of deaths much lower. Which if that continues suggests it's already the measures being taken killing people as much as the virus.
I think there will be big problems in Italy and I think bigger ones here in a couple of months. Potentially rioting. Because governments are fumbling along and will try to paint it as a victory when this all starts to ease off, which won't go down well when people still can't get food, healthcare, or find their job doesn't magically come back. Also when information starts to come out that contradicts the information that was given by the government...Which will happen as it's already clear some of what the UK Government have told people was very wide of the mark.
It comes back to what I said to @TheReligion there is a much higher level of trust in the system where you are than here, in no small part because there is a much higher level of competency in the system there than here.