Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Barely ever post here anymore and have read this thread a couple of times, just wanted to pop in to say something hehe

Firstly, I want to be patriotic and say that I truly believe we have dealt with the virus better than anyone else in the world. Do I still think our borders should've shut sooner? Yes, but that doesn't detract from what has been a mammoth of a job in upholding public health whilst taking measures to prevent a complete collapse of our economy. People love to nitpick and say that because we're an island nation with a small population that we have it easy, but that doesn't invalidate the response from the government. While some countries let life go on as normal before things became hellish, we clamped down almost straight away. Also a shoutout to my mother who as an essential worker (s/o to all the other essential workers too) has been busting her ass even more than usual.



Please don't try to glorify the Chinese response to the virus. It was covered up for around a month and this is part of the reason why the virus is as catastrophic as it is. Sure, governments around the world should have responded to the virus with a lot more urgency that would have prevented unnecessary deaths but this doesn't detract from the fact that China should have had their shit together as soon as it became a problem instead of spreading their propaganda. I also doubt that their methods of dealing with the crisis were exactly ethical either, not to mention they probably haven't learnt their lesson and wet markets will open again. And don't get me started on the speculative case underreporting.

Not going to lie but I cannot be the only one incredibly concerned for the economy situation after all this has died down... Especially for back home with the tourism industry all but dead and buried for the year, I was a bit young to remember 2009 well but I know it wasn't pretty and really hope its not a repeat of that

Anesović this is for you.

I'd definitely not say that we have a low death rate. It was pretty low at first, but it has been climbing ever since, and we're almost reaching 10% (as stated above),
and I also feel like the restrictions thing has been handled really poorly as well. While we may take action here and there, compared to the rest of the world,
it still feels way too free, with simple recommendations of "washing your hands" and "keeping distance". Not saying that we should completely shut down, but we could honestly do more.

Also, the fact that we were not doing much about event capacities back in March, when MF literally held a total of ~25k people inside the arena,
and boom, 3 weeks later, we've restricted everything to a maximum of 50 people, kind of shows why we happen to be the nordic country with the highest causes atm.