So I felt crap over the weekend - sore throat, headache, temperature.

[7sisters]

Have you been out recently? If so you’ve probably had it. My girlfriends dad was sick for two weeks, her mum for about 10 days. Not much of a fever but they both had dry coughs and the rest. Me and the girlfriend felt like we were coming down with something and then next day we woke up and both felt fine. We found out on the weekend that a bloke at her dads work tested positive for covid-19 (although there’s four floors between them at work). Still, we probably all had it in one form or another.

I keep reading that the Swedish Govt don’t give a toss about their elderly and vulnerable.
Expendable damage ?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

I keep reading that the Swedish Govt don’t give a toss about their elderly and vulnerable.
Expendable damage ?

They’ve just decided there’s no point putting everyone in lockdown because the end result will be the same. Some people will get it and some people will die. They put the responsibility on the individual rather than the government having to force it on everyone. They’ve put some restrictions in place like banning visits to old people’s homes and no public events with more than 50 people. The rest is guidance that they believe most will follow without having to enforce restrictions. Social distancing, stay at home for two weeks if you’re sick, work from home if you can. Most people have listened. It’s fairly empty in most places.

We’ve had 180 die so far, most over 80.

[Burney]

I keep reading that the Swedish Govt don’t give a toss about their elderly and vulnerable.
Expendable damage ?

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

I saw some speculation that they’re working off the basis that 80-90% are asymptomatic, or show so little symptoms that it won’t matter.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

And if they emerge relatively unscathed we'll have some explaining to do. Taking into account the sparseness of the population of course. And the fact they aren't governed by thieving tory ****holes of course

[Pokster]

Well they've gone down the herd immunity route. If they come through without significantly higher numbers of deaths than the rest of us, there's going to be some serious explaining to do.

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

[7sisters]

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

That seems untenable. Reports claim up to 80% of the population will contract it anyway, therefore the goal is in slowing it down.
If the Govt sticks to these measures, there’s an outside chance that these Nightingale units may not need to be fully utilised.

[Burney]

I thought that was the route you wanted us to go down?

That is rather the point of what I wrote. That we and every other country that's locked down would have some serious explaining to do if the Swedes end up doing not much worse than us.

[Monty92]

That is rather the point of what I wrote. That we and every other country that's locked down would have some serious explaining to do if the Swedes end up doing not much worse than us.

Amazed how many people in this thread have misunderstood your point

[Luis Anaconda]

Amazed how many people in this thread have misunderstood your point

I must admit, i read it wrongly the first time. Was early in the morning now. How's your old man holding up?