When they shut down all the small businesses and just left the big box stores open, they ended up concentrating all the shoppers together in a few big centralized locations, turning them into daily super-spreader events.
Now they're imposing curfews, as if that will somehow limit people's exposure to each other by keeping them at home more I guess?
Well here's the thing: Bars and restaurants are already closed. The only thing people are going out at night for is logistical activities like shopping - things they have to do every day regardless of curfews.
So all a curfew will accomplish is to shorten the available hours people have to carry out those logistical activities (like shopping), which will concentrate everyone into the stores during the remaining hours, which will increase social contact/exposure, not reduce it.
So like the small business shutdowns, this measure can only make things worse.
I don't believe for one second that there's any modeling that pointed to this being a good idea, because it defies logic on the face of it. At this point it's painfully obvious that governments are just taking drastic actions so they can be seen to be "doing something". And worse, there's no exit strategy. Nothing they're doing is working. None of these measures will bring an end to the pandemic (indeed they'll only make it worse), so where's the light at the end of the tunnel here? Is there one? Or is this the "new normal"?
Oh and they still don't know if the vaccines work on the new strains yet BTW.
Sweden is doing fine. Their second surge peaked and wasn’t above a normal bad flu season. All without any lockdowns.
Yeah, doing real great so that they just passed a law to make lockdowns legal and so great that Hospitals have to delay necessary surgeries:
https://www.thelocal.se/20210109/hospitals-in-sweden-forced-to-delay-necessary-operations
This happens during every bad flu season. They're also testing hospital workers which we normally would not due for flu. This puts an additional burden on the system due to the requirement to self isolate if a positive test comes back.
Daily cases and deaths peaked in December https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
The new regulations are still based on personal responsibility https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency-of-sweden/communicable-disease-control/covid-19/regulations-and-general-guidelines/
At least do some basic fucking research.
No, it doesn't. You're free to prove me wrong by showing just ounce of evidence that hospitals in Sweden postpone necessary cancer treatments because of the flu.
You linked something from December 14th. The law for lockdowns was passed this a day ago. The only person here who has to do some basic fucking research is you, you absolute retard.
Just skip over the case and daily deaths then you fucking space slice.
Hospitals are slammed during any bad flu season because capacity is planned for the average year.
Sweden has made it this far with minimal restrictions.
Not even in the top 10 for deaths per capita
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
Belgium, Italy, Spain, UK all above them. All have had multiple extremely restrictive lock downs.
Lockdowns are ineffective.