CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/s...56iu2.html

A bit slow to report his, the changes started happening 3 or 4 weeks back, but once 20 and 30 year fit and healthy types started dying or being severely disabled by suffering long term effects it was all over for this immunity strategy. Once it became the sons and daughters of the decision makers some who were previous COVID deniers, attitudes changed!

The nail on naysayers and deniers completely ignore the long term symptoms of many COVID survivors, it's like the deniers can only see or understand two binary states in complete ignorance of the middle ground, you live or you die in their eyes!

While not all people suffer severe or long term effects, living through COVID is not like being guaranteed to survive in full health, there is nothing further from the truth! It looks like for every person that dies, there is at least another one who will live with long term effects, like loss of limb control or locomotion, incontinence, liver, heart disease, lung disease or mental impairment.

I understand that Sweden has constitutional provisions that won't allow them to impose lockdown measures; it has to be voluntary.

While Sweden has done poorly in comparison to their neighbours, their results are still considerably better than Belgium, the UK and the USA.  It seems that ethnic Swedes are used self-isolating and complying with requests from Government.  More recent immigrants don't have the same cultural attributes and, anecdotally at least, are bearing the brunt of COVID.

BTW, an acquaintance of mine in the UK spent 90 days in hospital and 75 of those in a coma after contracting COVID.  I suspect that his quality of life will be much poorer for the experience.