18 October

Sweden, darling of the virus deniers, is being forced to introduce lockdowns due to an explosion of cases. Incidentally if you know somebody who believes the fastest way out of this pandemic is just to let everybody get infected, try this stat on for size. The US, where the policy in many States is pretty much that, would take about 15 years to infect everybody in the country, at their current rate of infection. https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/10/18/sweden-introduces-local-lockdowns-as-coronavirus-cases-rise/