Sky News host Rowan Dean says the failure of Australia’s political class to take the Swedish COVID-19 example seriously is something our children and grandchildren will be “paying a very heavy price for”.
“I have been saying this for months now,” Mr Dean said.
“In fact I first said it on this show in early April that we should be following the Swedish example and practising voluntary social distancing, common sense restrictions on the size of crowds, no lockdown and keeping our economy intact”.
Some emerging reports seem to endorse the herd immunity strategy utilised by Sweden, which has now recorded far fewer deaths per capita than the United Kingdom while maintaining basic freedoms and a far milder recession.
Former Swedish State Epidemiologist Professor Johan Giesecke warned a major lockdown would simply destroy the economy and leave the population without herd immunity and permanently vulnerable to future COVID-19 outbreaks.
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