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Lena Hallengren justifies the decision to release the more than 70 people saying that “it is not reasonable for a group to carry the great responsibility.”
Agnes Wold thinks this is an unfortunate wording:
– The restrictions have been there for the 70-year-old themselves, she says.
When the Minister of Social Affairs, Lena Hallengren, announced Thursday morning that the strictest restrictions for the elderly and risk groups in Sweden would be lifted, she said:
– It is not reasonable for a group to carry the great responsibility.
Agnes Wold, a doctor and professor of clinical bacteriology at the University of Gothenburg, is surprised by the minister’s choice of words.
– I do not like this terminology, to “bear the great responsibility”. It is a very dangerous disease for the elderly and much less dangerous for the young.
– Hallengren is not a biologist or doctor, so perhaps it is not so strange that she expresses herself that way. But you cannot speak of justice when it comes to a virus. It is a fact that there is a thousand times greater risk of dying if you contract it if you are 80 years old, compared to if you are 20 years old.
Wold notes that severe restrictions for the elderly are linked to increased risk.
– That’s the terrible truth. The fact that the elderly have received very strict restrictions is not because they have to take responsibility for another person, but because they are at greater risk.
It is divided that more than 70 people should now start living with “only” the restrictions that the rest of Sweden already has.
– If Johan Carlson, who is a public health general and has a lot of control over this, says that parts of the group over 70 have taken this so seriously that their lives get so boring that they better take a little risk more then, of course, I trust. your evaluation. He knows it much better than I do, says Wold.
She agrees that some older people have become too isolated, but warns them not to let loose too much now:
– I also notice in the questions I receive that more than 70 people have taken this very seriously. It’s good if you tell them that “you can go shopping, you can go to an exhibition, you can even go to a restaurant if you keep an adequate distance and it is scarce.” But it is not that “now you should be allowed to do it” because the younger ones have received it, but because, after all, there is an incredibly low risk in such contexts.
Photo: Adam Ihse / TT
Agnes Wold.
– But it is not an incredibly low risk, for example, to sing in a choir or to be at a family party with 30 people of different ages. I will continue to warn against such indoor family gatherings with young people, says Wold.
He adds that there is also a low risk of the elderly meeting other 70-year-olds – “they are very little exposed” – and taking public transport in the middle of the day if there are not many people.
Photo: Anders Wiklund / TT
Lena Hallengren during the press conference.
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