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Sweden's approach

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Allaboardthemagicbus2020 · 27/03/2020 22:37

How come the Swede's seem to be taking a casual approach to this?
No lockdown or closing of bars/cafes yet.

Any Swedes on here to offer their thoughts?

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LadyEloise · 19/04/2020 09:57

Looking at Sweden on the Coronavirus section of Worldometer.
Which policy is best ?
The lockdown here in Ireland or the more relaxed approach the Swedish government has taken.
Sweden has more deaths per million but has half the cases per million Ireland has.
Sweden has done far fewer tests per million, less than half the number tested in Ireland.

esm1976 · 19/04/2020 10:12

I understand the Swedes are trying to preserve as much of their economy as possible by taking a very limited 'lockdown' approach recognising that the ensuing global economic catastrophe soon to unfold will likely kill far, far more people than covid-19. It seems to be working for them at the moment I believe in terms of mortality rate, etc, but I'm obviously no expert.

LadyEloise · 21/04/2020 17:40

Sweden still has half the number of cases per million than Ireland yet it doesn't have the strict lockdown Ireland has.
Of course Sweden has done less than half the tests per million that Ireland has done.
Sweden has more deaths per million thsn Ireland.
So we don't still know which policy is better.

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