> it's a political question not a medical question.

Not as much here in Norway as it is in the UK. Our death rate per unit population is one tenth of the UK and local authorities remain prepared to reinstate restrictions. Here we have been living pretty much normally for months already anyway.

And while the government has occasionally overreacted both the government and population have mostly followed the Norwegian Public Health Institute (FHI) advice.

> it's a political question not a medical question.

>> Our death rate per unit population is one tenth of the UK and local authorities

It's a fat question at the end of the day. Norway doesn't have many fat people.

It has a lot more now than it did when I arrived here in 1986. Dramatically more so.

We, Sweden, lifted the mandate 2 days ago and after a clear trend of the small fourth wave not increasing.

Precisely. Also congrats on having sane politicians. Sweden has 10x the hospitalization rates of many countries that still have mandates, thus it is a political question, not a medical one.

What countries? Show me the data.

Edit: Deleting most of my post since Sweden does not track hospitalizations, only ICU admissions so I compared incorrectly. Here is the graph for ICU, judge for yoruselves if there are any with a 1/10 of Sweden's numbers.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/weekly-icu-admissions-cov...

I misspoke, it was deaths, not hospitalizations. Norway has 1/10th the deaths per capita of Sweden. Canada has 1/2 of what Sweden has, and we are still have mandates and restrictions.

given the UK's death rate, I wouldn't use it as a data point for success.