Lucky Sweden, with no lockdown, light-years ahead of other European countries falling to bits

Our officials gleefully prophesied a Swedish disaster. Wrong! 

https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-or-a-bold-evidence-based-response-in-sweden-it-depends-who-you-ask-20200420-p54ll8.html

This article in The Age, while still trying to create fear where there is none, could not hide the truth:

with no lockdown, Sweden is comparatively unscathed economically (its unemployment is up two points, while in most Western countries, including Australia it is doubling or worse). Nor is it suffering any more in terms of Coronavirus fatalities: 175 per million, compared to the UK's 255; France, 319; Spain, 464; Belgium, 540; Italy, 408; The Netherlands, 229, all suffering from lockdowns and entering full-blown economic depression.

Putting things in perspective

In a typical year in Sweden, 9 people per thousand die from all causes. So far this year, less than 2 in 10,000 have died with Coronavirus:  Less than 2% of all the deaths likely to occur this year in Sweden have been associated with the Wuhan virus. These figures show that we have been the victims of a media orchestrated campaign to convince us that we were facing a catastrophic epidemic (Federal and State governments operate on the fantasy that, without lockdowns, the virus would kill a million Australians). We are not. As the Swedish authorities mentioned in the article in The Age stated, in the capital, the peak has now been reached.

Sweden. Watch this space.

The bad news for the panic merchants trying to ruin our lives and country, is that Sweden is not the hecatomb they predicted. The hospitals are coping. With a third of the population in the capital being exposed, it is far too late to adopt the economic and social strangulation Australians are living under. The Swedes have adopted the approach that it best to treat people like adults. 

"Zero Risk": an absurd logic.

No country wants any fatalities, but the logic of trying to reduce to zero something which is unavoidable in the real world, produces a nanny state turned mad and vengeful. By this logic, hundreds of millions of people who live in tropical countries where malaria is prevalent, would be forbidden to go outside in case they get bitten by a mosquito. Likewise, road fatalities claim many lives every year, but life goes on. The alternative would be to get everyone off the road altogether, or have them drive at 5kph. We all know the alternative to this and accept it. In the same way, the Swedes have adopted a sensible approach that tries to reduce something bad like sickness from Coronavirus, but without stopping the country. 

Australia has no exit strategy. 

While congratulating themselves on having few deaths associated with Coronavirus (due to isolating this island country, not isolating individuals), those who currently rule by decree have no realistic plan for getting us out of isolation and shut down. Well they say, once we erradicate the virus, we can open up. Really? Do they really think every "infected" person has been identified or will be? There are large numbers of healthy carriers around. In addition, sooner or later international travel will have to resume. As with Singapore, which had successfully controlled the virus for a while by lockdowns, all of a sudden 3,000 new cases have appeared and it's back to the lockup.

As long as a substantial (experts say 40-70%) number of people have not been exposed to the virus, the country will revert to shutdowns. Tracking people with apps won't avoid the problem either. As for continuing to strangle the country until a vaccine appears, it will be too late by then; life support for the lucky country will have been turned off long before then. One more year of this simply is not going to happen. Nor will nine months, or three months. 

The lockdown will end very soon.