More contrarian views on the coronavirus debacle from off-Guardian.
Dr Anders Tegnell is a Swedish physician and civil servant who has been State Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden since 2013. Dr Tegnell graduated from medical school in 1985, specialising in infectious disease. He later obtained a PhD in Medical Science from Linköping University in 2003 and an MSc in 2004.
What he says:
“All measures that we take must be feasible over a longer period of time.” Otherwise, the population will lose acceptance of the entire corona strategy.
Older people or people with previous health problems should be isolated as much as possible. So no visits to children or grandchildren, no journeys by public transport, if possible no shopping. That is the one rule. The other is: Anyone with symptoms should stay at home immediately, even with the slightest cough.
“If you follow these two rules, you don’t need any further measures, the effect of which is only very marginal anyway,”
Politically Boris will have to keep his ear to the ground because the UK lockdown is beginning to seem like an over-reaction which may yet become a gross over-reaction. Apart from anything else, stimulating the loons could have significant long term political effects.
For example.
4 comments:
Scaremongering from the Grauniad? Shurely not!
You're right. Real facts and sensible precautions are what will help. T'interweb is your friend for information if you have the ability to filter it but there are plenty of loons there, too.
Yes, that does seem like the most sensible plan. The vulnerable have every reason to comply; unlike the young and healthy who have no personal incentive to comply with a general lock down.
"If you follow these two rules, you don’t need any further measures, the effect of which is only very marginal anyway,”
So Derbyshire Police needn't bother spending your council tax on drones, Twitter spats, and putting dye in lakes? These things are "marginal", are they?
Jannie - our masters don't have confidence in our ability to absorb real facts and take sensible precautions, but on the whole I think we would.
Mark - yes the vulnerable do have every reason to comply and probably would.
Sam - I'm sure Sir Robert Peel would have seen policing Twitter spats as equivalent to Peelers sitting in post offices reading private letters.
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