so why is it that Sweden have less deaths per capita than us, and they've had no lockdown?
They probably have better living conditions, better healthcare and a different ethnic makeup of their population, or just a different system for reporting and recording deaths. There could be a whole host of other factors causing the difference.
It could even be that the Swedish government is manipulating the data to make it look like they've got it right.
Have you compared the deaths per capita of every affected country, or are you just comparing the two countries?
Unfortunately, based on current data, this virus appears to affect black and ethnic minority groups worse than others.
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Section 51 and Schedule 21 of the Act contain certain coercive powers in respect of potentially infectious persons. Under these provisions, Public Health Officers are empowered to require a potentially infectious person to submit to screening and assessment and to impose certain restrictions and requirements on such persons.
Yes, because there are a lot of idiots in this country who couldn't be trusted to isolate themselves if they have symptoms these powers are needed.
There are a lot of people in this country who will be bloody minded and just carry on regardless whatever symptoms they have and not care about how many people they might infect. There'll be people who say 'well I feel OK so I'm going out' or 'they can't stop me, I have a right to go out' etc etc whilst they have symptoms of this disease, and if left unchecked will spread it far and wide.
If so many of the population weren't so damn stupid then perhaps we wouldn't have these new laws.
Then of course you have to remember that it was the public/media that were crying out for us to be put in to lock down in tbe first place.
Before schools were closed there was a heck of a lot of public and media pressure to close them, the government were trying to keep them open for as long as possible.
The media was full of people saying that we shoukd have been in lockdown already before it started, plenty of people saying the government were failing because they didn't our us in to lockdown.
And yet now we are in a sort of lockdown everyone is complaining about it again and wanting it ended, challenged in courts.
The government could end the lockdown tomorrow and then face a whole raft of complaints that they've ended it too early and they're just thinking about the money and don't care about people's safety.