JohnBoy
Well-Known Member
yea right!
Look at what happened in Sweden. They saw no need for a lockdown and it was going great until the last few weeks. 10.5% of people that contracted covid 19 there died with it and that's not even counting the elderly people that died in nursing facilities. With our lockdown, our death rate was 5.5% and that if we didn't include the people that died in the nursing homes, it would be 2.25%.
Are you saying that we should just let people die? To me, one life saved is enough to justify it, never mind the thousands of lives that were saved as a result of what we did in comparison to countries that didn't take the same approach.
Agree with most of what you're saying but I can't agree with that principle, if we applied that logic then we should all be in isolation bubbles all the time. public health has to balance the needs of the country with the ability to protect the country.
People die of diseases all the time that we don't pull out all the stops to prevent. But this was a disease that was spreading at a rate the would have overwhelmed our health service in a matter of weeks and the death toll would have been significantly higher. I think the irish lockdown was the right thing to do at the right time and I think the rollback approach is pretty proportionate, maybe bordering a little too far on the conservative side given the extent to which our health service has been bolstered.
When covid landed we had to lockdown or it would have destroyed us, but now that we have it under control we have to learn to live with it for the forseeable future.
The economic impact on Sweden has been just as bad as elsewhere, but with a much higher death toll, so I'm not sure what the point of it all was. Maybe it will pay dividends with herd immunity long term but it seems an awful gamble to have taken with people.