MadMonk wrote:Sweden has regained our decades old posture - we are going aggressively neutral against COVID-19!
On the other hand, Switzerland for the first time in centuries has foregone its neutrality, joined the western alliance and is at war with Covid.
Iceland is another country which has bucked the trend of strict lockdowns.
Do you happen to have an age distribution of Swedish cases?
Rancid wrote:
I'd imagine that by the time there are plenty of masks, we will have been past the global peak of this.
The Austrian chancellor is talking about the surgical masks which would be dispensed at supermarket entries and you can only enter if you wear them. The protection would come from the fact that everyone inside wears a mask. That's my understanding at the moment.
There are instructions everywhere on the Internet now on how to make similar ones at home which might be less effective but still work to reduce infections between people.
I have to say though that it is the most ridiculous thing that we haven't yet produced all the masks we might need. They are not hard to make!