Nobody seems to he sure of what will happen after the lockdowns, several countries in Europe are reopening slowly, including schools.in Asia, countries close to China are toughening measures. Hard to say now which policy will prove the most effcient, but imo locking up whole populations at home just to be able to show lower daily deaths from the coronavirus is most dodgy. It s like we should live as sterilized house pets so we can live longer. Or raising national life expectancy even a couple of weeks should come at any cost.
Lockdowns haven t been extreme afaik in Scandinavia , and the countries there are better managed than most places in the world, including Europe. I m seing them from Spain so am very biased against the lockdowns, most especially the people s quarantine. Here even kids are still not allowed to walk outside the house after 1 whole month in this situation. Many are fine with hiding in their closet while playing Resistiremos" ( the quarantine resistance hit, ridiculous song imo) on their sound system.
Now european politicians in Brussels are saying old people will probably be confined until the end of the year, especially in residences. That has been the case for a while already, and in France Spain and Italy at least many have died in residences from which much of the staff had absconded without proper care and isolated from their family. Those elders opinion is no requested btw, I m not sure they would elect spend a whole year locked in when facing a short life expectancy and often tough health anyway.
