There are 10 people in hospitals in Denmark for COVID19. None dead.
By the publicised numbers Sweden is hit about the same as Denmark; yet they choose a much more moderate approach.
As if China can be explained that way.
I have no opinion on whether this is blown out of proportion.
I can just see that my own country is choosing the most extreme measures (packaged in nationalistic rhetorics) where as our neighbours are not.
The idea that the population should be sampled so the exact extent of the spread can be measured (and so can the effect of the various policies) is not mine. Here is a Danish doctor calling for the same:
https://www.altinget.dk/artikel/overlaege-regeringens-corona...
In Danish. Headline: The Government's Corona-strategy misses focus on the engine of the epidemic
So far the people infected skews fairly young
And the pandemic took hold around Tuesday and it takes about a week for hospitalization to be required in the severe cases
There are not many medical systems on the planet that could handle that per capita case load increase in such a short amount of time (specifically the intensive care patients that will go with it in the coming days and weeks).