https://statistichecoronavirus.it/coronavirus-italia/The number of deaths in Italy peaked on 27/3.20. If Sweden is allowing gathering of up to 50, given that this virus is extremely contagious, it continues to be faithful to its policy of allowing it to spread around the community. Naturally the death rate will go up.
This is not the flu; it's much more contagious, and goes through as population much quicker. Of course it can overload a health system, but the Swedes are preparing for that.
If 10-50% are already infected there is no point in a lockdown. If it's less than 1% (meaning death rates are terrible), as we're led to believe, then any lockdown, even if effective, will not prevent a new rush of infections and deaths once it ends. Therefore, we would have to along like this for years. Won't happen. The economy and people's sanity will give long before that.
Of course my opinion is just an opinion and it is that the truth is more likely to be something along the lines of the oxford study. Nobody seriously believes the infection rates that are continually reported in the media have anything to do with reality. Why then are people being frightened with images that are lies.
A photo of an overloaded hospital or an army truck loaded with corpses does not mean more people are going to die than average in a country any more than a photo of people fighting over toilet paper in an Australian supermarket means the country is running out of it.
