During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway
In 2014, the Public Health Agency merged with the Institute for Infectious Disease Control; the first decision by its new head (Johan Carlson) was to dismiss and move the authority’s six professors to Karolinska Institute. With this setup, the authority lacked expertise and could **disregard scientific facts. **
The Swedish pandemic strategy seemed targeted towards “natural” herd-immunity and avoiding a societal shutdown. The Public Health Agency labelled advice from national scientists and international authorities as extreme positions, resulting in media and political bodies to accept their own policy instead. The Swedish people were kept in ignorance of basic facts such as the airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission, that asymptomatic individuals can be contagious and that face masks protect both the carrier and others.
Appropriate (potentially life-saving) treatment was withheld without medical examination, and without informing the patient or his/her family or asking permission.
Literal social fascism, killing off the old and vulnerable by purposely misleading the population, and witholding medical care.
Yeah when you let “individual choice” rule in a heavily propagandised environmet, the results are predictable as we see with COVID 19. It’s why collectivism is so important.
Individuals die, but institutions live on and on.
All long term change is through institutions, not individuals.
One step removed from how the Midsommar cult dealt with old people
Oh, people finding out about this again. I remember railing about this back when this site was but a baby. The Swedish “strategy” was (and is) so dogshit I’m honestly astounded that more people haven’t died.
Should also note that the main pushback here after the first wave where you could blame foreigners, was about the measures being too extreme :sadness-abysmal:
have you ever considered old people dont make capitalists much money so we should just kill em all :sweden-cool:
