Post-Covid-19 - Mon, Apr 11, 2022
Two and a half years later, what happened and what is still happening
April 1st 2022 was an apt date chosen by the Swedish Public Health Agency to announce that Covid-19 no longer is a danger to society and that there will be no further restrictions. Krisinformation
The first thing that happened was that my whole family got Covid. We first thought that it was the usual “February-sickness” as February is also called “VABruari”. SVT
This is due to so many preschool children getting sick and the parents needing to take Vård Av Sjukt barn (VAB - Compensation for care of a sick child). Försäkringskassan
My love got it the worst and I lagged a bit after. The most maddening was the lost of taste - I couldn’t even binge-eat as a coping mechanism! Then our little one got sick and we had to find ways to get him to get enough nutrients to get through his first sickness. We were at this time happy that he was a bit rotound and had enough energy to go through it without any issues other than high feaver and sluggishness. We were also happy that we at least had gotten the first and second dose of vaccine as we only got flue-like symptomes and loss of scent and taste. I am still dealing with those problems long-term.
Now to the numbers.
The situation in Sweden as of 2022 04 07 - SVT:
- 2 491 980 total cases of Covid-19
- 18 506 dead
As the figure shows we had a second and a third wave of deaths over time.
Now see that giant spike of cases in the beginning of 2022 around the holidays when restrictions got a bit looser. Many people had taken 3 or even 4 shots of the vaccine at this time, so the the correlation to number of deaths was not as high as previously.
In summary, society is back to normal in Sweden. No restrictions means that people are still getting sick but the general population is vaccinated so the death-risk is believed to be relatively small. I will keep taking the vaccines as they are available just as I do with the yearly flu-shot.