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What a wonderful message!
People over 70 have the same rights as everyone else to live in this society.
That we are affected by a pandemic and that we must all take responsibility together, it goes without saying.
It would have been logical to remove the special recommendations for more than 70 the last time it was announced, in late May. By then, 1.6 million Swedes had a better life during the summer.
Because it has taken so long is incomprehensible. Other things have seemed more important to me. But recently, the government and the Public Health Agency have been under pressure to do something about the situation of the elderly.
Through my column “My life as a pensioner” on Aftonbladet every Thursday, I have been in contact with hundreds of older people, who have testified to the severe psychological pressure under which they lived.
They have seen younger people completely ignore recommendations to limit infection, while they themselves have been trapped and isolated in their homes.
Many have fallen into a deep depression of loneliness.
I have in my column In recent weeks he reviewed the special advice for those over 70. “Make the rules of the crown the same for everyone,” I wrote a week ago. What is happening now, so fast, I see as a personal victory.
FACSIMIL: Britta Svensson’s column on October 15, 2020.
Early this morning my column was published in which I asked myself why a person over 70 should be isolated, when Anders Tegnell, 64, for his part says that he is not afraid of getting infected: “It is much more dangerous cross a pedestrian crossing in town. “
A few hours later, it is suddenly announced that his boss Johan Carlson and the Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren will hold a press conference. There will be the message that special recommendations for the elderly and others in the risk group will be removed.
Very good!
Otherwise, it was in the direction of danger that the recommendations to older people to stay home, limit their social contacts, and get help buying food were upheld throughout the winter.
That this is not happening now, I don’t think it affects the spread of the infection. The greatest risk for the elderly remains, and even people over the age of 70 can read, watch TV, listen to the radio, and draw their own conclusions based on the information they receive.
The vast majority will remain cautious.
Some will even remain completely isolated for fear of infection. Others, as they have done before, will live as usual and, like Anders Tegnell, will consider themselves invulnerable.
But I really hope that Kerstin, Birgitta, Eva, Anita, Agneta and everyone who has heard of me and only longed for the little things – going out to buy food and meeting the grandchildren – dare to do it now.
The usual advice applies: stay away from others, wash your hands, avoid congestion. We’re under 70 years old now, a huge task – making sure those over 70 have a good winter, a wonderful Christmas, and some happy experiences. Now it is our turn to follow the recommendations as closely and in solidarity as older people have done, and to show that we are a society in which everyone has a place and where we stick together.
Photo: TT
Two older men with crown at a safe distance from each other on a sunny day this spring.
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Aftonbladet Daily with Jonas F Ludvigsson, professor at the Karolinska Institutet and pediatrician at Örebro University Hospital.
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