grunge
Well-Known Member
Let's use Sweden as an example of what would happen without a strict lockdown, aren't they on around 12 a day dying now? Before people start banging on about population etc Stockholm is more densely populated than London. Many studies have said that a full lockdown has barely any benefit over banning large gatherings together with social distancing. It is also proven our cases peaked before lockdown. In my opinion there is absolutely no way we would be anywhere near 500k deaths.
The Sweden argument, ignoring population density even tho there only the 1 city that can compare to the Uk. The rest is very sparse.
they are naturally reserved, touching in public is not a done thing, young sweeds tend to leave the nest early so lower cross generational contamination.
And more importantly, According to 5/6 people i know who live there, mostly in Stockholm, the majority of the population ignored the gov and self isolated anyways, lots of companies closed offices and got people to work from home etc etc.
And in general, Sweeds see there strategy as an epic fail.
additionally the average age of Stockholm is 38, 40% of the Stockholm population is Between 20-44.
Edit, another point with stockholm is there are less than a million people there. London is 9 million. London had 6100 deaths. Stockholm had 2300, which is a far higher rate to London by populaton
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