Originally Posted by
SwedishBaggie
I fully understand your sentiments and agree with what you say, ”get on with life”, Mick.
As many know from my posts regarding this, I have been negative towards lock downs and similar measures.
Of course people in ”risk groups” should be protected and all lives matter (eh!?) etc, but the real pandemic imo is the mass hysteria (and not the virus) brought on by media/social media.
Both GB and Sweden have been hit hard, and therefore some of my facts and figures can apply for both countries I think (and some are international).
The vast majority of people who contract Covid 19 hardly notice it.
84 % of all 90 years old and older who get it survive.
In Sweden roughly the same amount of people have died January-May this year compared to most years, and ”we have been hit hard by Corona”.
Our NHS have coped well, we had an enormous military field hospital on stand by in Stockholm, closed down without having been used once.
More people died in Sweden in December 1993 and in January 2000 than in April 2020, which was in the very epicentre of the pandemic.
And an interesting question would be, how many have died directly from the Corona virus, and how many have died with the Corona virus?
In 1968 (which I with some emphasis will argue is modern times) some 4 million, probably more, people died from ”the Hongkong flu”, as of yet with Corona, not 500 000.
Pandemics come and go with some intermittent frequency, ”the Spanish flu” (1919-20), ”the Asian” in the 50s, the above mentioned ”Hongkong” in 1968, and now, in 2020, the Corona.
The virus does not ”announce its presence” which is why some countries had this probably as early as October 2019, and that is why you can see differences between countries in the number of deaths, good or bad luck tbh. Eg, two very similar and comparable countries -and neighbour countries - Belgium and the Netherlands both closed down early and severly, Belgium have been hit very hard, the Netherlands not...
Imo, many of the measures taken to by different countries are much more dangerous than the virus, we are talking about human rights and freedoms for instance. And not forgetting that these measures cause bad health and deaths, eg there is a 63 % higher risk of mortality when unemployed.
When people start calling for strong leaders I am always worried, remember the 30s... And look at how, for instance, Viktor Orban in Hungary played his cards during the pandemic.
And solidarity between the EU countries, well **** that...
On a personal view, I will probably not be let into GB this summer, 2-week quarantine... Off to Belgium next week though.