I Am A Swede

To be perfectly honest, while I think that we made the right choice to keep society as open as possible, I think that our politicians have been too passive during this whole situation. They are supposed to be the leaders but they have handed all the responsibilities over to the Public Health Agency. In times like these we look to our leaders for, well.... leadership. And that is an area where they have been found to be seriously lacking. And that goes for all our politicians, not just those in the government, even though the opposition parties are starting to play the blame game. They were all in agreement that the strategy we used was the right one, and that we should keep our society open and avoid a complete lockdown. Now though they are trying to distance themselves from decisions they agreed to back then and instead blame the government for our death toll. One of the reasons we have a comparatively high death rate is that the virus unfortunately found its way into retirement homes and nursing homes. Close to 90 percent of those who have died were 70 years or older. But things are looking up. All the numbers are going down and the restrictions that were imposed have been relaxed a little.

Interesting read. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53188847 I had no idea that Japan has used the same tactic, more or less, that we have used here in Sweden. No complete lockdown, only recommendations, yet only around 1000 deaths.

A first step could be to introduce a minimum age for entrance into ATP and WTA tournaments. Tennis history is full of child stars who have burned out at a very young age, or found themselves in trouble with drugs and/or the law.

Some people apparently can't help themselves..... How stupid can you get? https://www.essentiallysports.com/watch-alexander-zverev-violates-quarantine-rules-after-pledging-self-isolation-atp-tennis-news/ And Nick Kyrgios is not impressed with Zverev's behaviour https://www.essentiallysports.com/how-selfish-can-you-be-nick-kyrgios-blasts-alexander-zverev-atp-tennis-news/

There aren't enough in the world to illustrate how I feel about this.

It might not be all bad news for Novak. Now he might be spared the difficult decision about who would be the only one from his entourage he would bring to the US Open.

^^ Wow, that's just.......just.... I can't find the right words.... it's so revolting. "Send Granny to the grave".... I feel physically sick.

In memory of Ian Holm (1931-2020)

^^ Sadly I can't say I'm surprised. There will always be some who use every opportunity they can to indulge themselves in looting and wanton destruction just because they can. A lot of them probably don't give a damn about George Floyd and what happened to him.

He's the worst person to sit in the White House, period! Ever!!

I don't think you would be making that kind of comment if you had actually experienced sexual harassment.

Twitter tags a Trump-tweet with a fact-checking warning, and now Trump threatens to close down social media...... https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52815552 I'd like to call him a big baby, but that would be insulting the babies of the world who are all more mature than he is.