We as nation put on extreme measures but there is no visibility.
What is the true number of infected in Denmark? There is no sampling or systematic measurement going on.
We probably know less than you guys in Sweden yet we choose the most extreme actions.
We just had our PM go on national TV and call on all Danes to return to Denmark as she shut down the border.
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).
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
At least next time around we should all be prepared like Taiwan was this time.
It's not just the inefficiency of central governments. The main problem, at least here, is that people seem reluctant to follow guidelines, and thus the state had to enforce stricter rules. The same happened in Italy and it's the reason incidents skyrocketed. Everyone was fucking around thinking that it's just another variant of the flu. And then reality hit them like a ton of bricks.
sarcasm? or heard on TV to calm the population?
This is how extreme measures look like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXpHD9bjGe0
Denmark is negligent, as is rest of Europe.
Three weeks ago our PM was busy playing petty political games with the opposition, today she is shutting down our borders preventing all foreigners entering the country.