I'm alive, and take the following with a grain of salt

Some military hospital tent outside a care centre I pass on my way to work. Of course we are affected by the threatening atmosphere in society. On the other hand, the government spokesman say our curve still look better than it did in Italy, Spain and so. Today 31/03 the statistic for this region, Västerbotten, Sweden, was 48 diagnosed cases, five patients were or had been in intensive care, no death. Statistic like that makes one hope we won't need the tent hospitals. Hopefully all the preparations is like using heavy artillery to open a nut. A vain hope(?). In reality it hasn't even started yet. Expecting the worst, hoping for the best.

It's a virus that kill some, not all just some, of the sick and old. Now no one says that the sick and old deserves to die. The following thought is taken from one single blog post I have read. From some countries you can see photos of heavily armed soldiers with their faces hidden by masks, on empty streets. Our way of protecting the old and sick are also draconian, but our politicians want to still keep the open society. So semi-dracorian, not crazy dracorian. Time will tell what's best. Now keep an "open society" is a much more abstract goal than keeping people alive. It a goal that’s much harder to benchmark. However, if we don’t get more death than countries that chose another path, that’s great. Having heavily armed soldiers on the streets doesn’t makes us feel safer.