[svennek]

TLDR: We (the danes) believe that the infected and the bad outcomes (hospitalizations and deaths) have been sufficiently decoupled due to massive vaccines.

Combined with our massive testing effort (both on an individual case-by-case basis and waste water testing etc) we believe it's time to lift the restrictions.

It is of course a risky move, and personally I am curious if we gonna hit the brake hard again in 10 days..

But anyways, lock-downs hurt both the people and the community around the world, so I am sure a lot of eyes are on us and everyone else doing something "aggressive"...

Fingers crossed

[pasabagi]

It should be fine.

If you consider the UK as a sort of upper-bound[0] on how many people can die if you just relax all restrictions in a vaccinated population, it works out to an average of 250 deaths per week.

That is, as a worst-case scenario, probably manageable.

On the other hand, I know many doctors and nurses hate this kind of thinking, because they view a high coronavirus incidence as a driver of a degradation of general standards of care, so consequently, a driver of excess deaths.