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Gerdler:
So lockdowns can look very different and has in different places during this pandemic, they were all a panic measure and not very well thought through.
If you look up official pandemic plans dated from a few years before this, of UK, USA, all of EU and some others, you will see that the plans look an aweful lot like what Sweden did.
In the end I think the restrictions/recommendation, either including or not including a lockdown, had two main intentions;
1. to bring the burden on health care to a level possible to manage in the short term.
2. to show "look we are doing stuff".
Now we have vaccines tho, and everyone in Europe, US, Canada who wanted them and is above 16 has already been vaccinated, mostly fully, but some only with one shot so far. And those who have taken this opportunity have a very low risk of ending up either in a hospital or ICU or dead from covid, which is why if you look at the numbers in countries with good coverage, the number of covid infections per fatality has increased by an order of magnitude(tenfold), and the healthcare burden is mostly not problematic, and made up by patients mostly in the unvaccinated minority. So while the cases are ticking in at a rate that is sometimes comparable to the worst waves in the pandemic, the death toll is no longer problematic. In Sweden for instance presently about 0.25% of daily deaths are attributed to covid19 - which, unless this starts rising very rapidly again as the seasons shift or the restrictions/recommendations are lifted, makes it very questionable if maintaining any burdensome restrictions are really defensible.
I mean isreal is 80% fully vaccinated 12yrs and older and are Currently in a covid crisis. Another large portion of their population somewhere around 45-50% had already a booster and they are currently talking about boosters every six months to keep travel visas active. Our company last week had 6 positive cases only one hospitalized was fully vaccinated. Also now looking at the MU variant thats said to be unnaffected by immunization vaccine and natural is now "sweeping" the globe. Nothing in the end is really going to help.
