Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m...
by DanBC on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:40AM
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UK implemented a full lockdown really late, a long time after covid-19 was fully established in the community.
There's a bunch of other stuff going on with the UK that has increased the number of deaths:
10 years of austerity has cut budgets to local authorities, and they're responsible for public health (so things like track and trace). LAs are also responsible for care homes, and the lack of budget means care home workers are on minimum wage zero hour contracts, so they feel they have to work and they often work in more than one place. This means they're more likely to spread covid-19 to vulnerable residents.
> the justification for the lockdown was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system (flattening the curve to under the hospital capacity, which everyone seems to have forgotten now)
There are ways to avoid overwhelming the hospitals. One way (which is what the UK did) is to just let people die in the care homes and never admit them to hospital. That's not great.
The problem with ending lockdown is that in many places it's not being done with any care. There's a rush to end lockdown without any measures being put in place around what to do if the number of infections starts to rise again.
There's a bunch of other stuff going on with the UK that has increased the number of deaths:
10 years of austerity has cut budgets to local authorities, and they're responsible for public health (so things like track and trace). LAs are also responsible for care homes, and the lack of budget means care home workers are on minimum wage zero hour contracts, so they feel they have to work and they often work in more than one place. This means they're more likely to spread covid-19 to vulnerable residents.
> the justification for the lockdown was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system (flattening the curve to under the hospital capacity, which everyone seems to have forgotten now)
There are ways to avoid overwhelming the hospitals. One way (which is what the UK did) is to just let people die in the care homes and never admit them to hospital. That's not great.
The problem with ending lockdown is that in many places it's not being done with any care. There's a rush to end lockdown without any measures being put in place around what to do if the number of infections starts to rise again.