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Coronavirus

For a country of 10m, Sweden's done almost as brick a job at keeping their population alive as we have.

The WHO guy seems to be praising the fact they have a population who'll do what they're told, and believe their government, rather than anything specific to their decisions on how to approach this. (Link now says he's backtracked.)
 
Seedy Ron said:
For a country of 10m, Sweden's done almost as brick a job at keeping their population alive as we have.

The WHO guy seems to be praising the fact they have a population who'll do what they're told, and believe their government, rather than anything specific to their decisions on how to approach this. (Link now says he's backtracked.)
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But, most importantly, they've done a far better job of keeping the country running.
 
scaramanga said:
Higher taxes are the worst possible outcome here. Probably worse than Professor Panic's Doomsday machine predicted.
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I see Australian companies in Queensland are taking legal action against the states government over lock down, first of many i imagine.

people are not spending as it is due to job loss threat, higher taxes is going to hurt even more.

higher tax on business runs the risk of more job losses

Furguson should be struck off.
 
I’ve just been to a&e with my elderly mum. Two characters in there with tight chests. Dirty rough looking covid types.

She’s been shielding and then we get exposed like that. FFS. They should separate them out before triage it’s not rocket science, for gods sake nhs.
 
scaramanga said:
But, most importantly, they've done a far better job of keeping the country running.
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Their GDP has collapsed as much as those nations that had a hard lock down. As usual you don't know what you are talking about. They derived zero economic benefit from letting the virus rip.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Their GDP has collapsed as much as those nations that had a hard lock down. As usual you don't know what you are talking about. They derived zero economic benefit from letting the virus rip.
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Somewhere between 2 and 4 percent by most measures.

That's a lot of money.
 
Gilzeantoscore said:
Their GDP has collapsed as much as those nations that had a hard lock down. As usual you don't know what you are talking about. They derived zero economic benefit from letting the virus rip.
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Sweden, which avoided a lockdown during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, saw its economy shrink 8.6% in the April-to-June period from the previous three months.

The flash estimate from the Swedish statistics office indicated that the country had fared better than other EU nations which took stricter measures.

The European Union saw a contraction of 11.9% for the same period.

Individual nations did even worse, with Spain seeing an 18.5% contraction, while the French and Italian economies shrank by 13.8% and 12.4% respectively.



Still better than the average - plus they are not in fear of going out and spending unlike the UK.
 
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