The poster "Facts Matter" has written in another thread (I am not this person!):
"Social distancing is a joke, many states are not STRICT about it or not even doing it at all. Last I checked there wasn't a border around Nebraska and the virus doesn't seem to follow directions all that well. People are still roaming the streets and going to the park. Even the people that think they are doing a good job, are not adding much. Eating takeout does nothing, someone cooks it and touches it and someone hands it to you and you touch it and then eat it. Grocery shopping is a virus playground. Every fruit, vegetable, can of tuna and bag of dog food has been contaminated by a virus that he experts claim lives on surfaces for an extended period of time. Wiping down your cart doesn't do diddly, the minute you touch something else you put it right back on there. You then touch things like your steering wheel your doorknob, virtually everything you touch has probably already been visited by our friend Corona. The number of COVID-19 cases will rise in direct proportion to the amount of testing because it's everywhere and distancing is not going to do a damn thing."
We have to think about that. On the one hand, the draconian measures in many countries contribute to the fact that developments slow down (at least it seems so), on the other hand, what "Facts Matter" writes is not wrong. We also have to consider that the conditions in one country cannot necessarily be generalized for other countries. In any case, the measures in Sweden seem to me to be more sensible because they take into account that the state cannot regulate everything and that the situation in Sweden is not or will not be as it is in China or Italy. I have the strong impression that some here claim something like a sovereignty of interpretation, no matter how expensive and how drastic it is. But for other diseases that have existed so far, this attitude surprisingly did not show up. It seems a bit arbitrary. Unless, from now on, the lockdown is the maxim for all future diseases with a similar mortality rate. I don't think that's realistic. That is just a personal opinion. So there is no reason to react aggressively.