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.
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:
we can’t tell people to wear masks because it might scare them a little, it’s safer to have everyone constantly spraying a mist of infected saliva in each other’s faces
btw did you know nuclear war is actually quite survivable? here’s why we should start a nuclear war with russia 🧵 [1/49]
Britain did this too but also went further by deliberately infecting the carehomes by moving covid patients from hospitals into them and then placing DNR (do not resuscitate) orders on them.
Governments committed genocide of the elderly in broad daylight and huge swathes of people just didn’t notice at all.
Almost all western governments did this to some degree, but the sheer magnitude and death rate of the Swedish crime against humanity is staggering. Even though they had all the resources to prevent it. Look at their neighbours having death rates 10 times lower, even though they themselves did a very poor job of containing COVID.
Though the UK unfortunately is stuff competition in that regard, especially the COVID 19 hospitals and care home policies.
I’m used to “social fascism” being a metaphor. JFC.
Deep down, when push comes to shove, it’s never been a metaphor. Another version of “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”.
How did those Scandinavian countries get so “rich” again?
Some sell oil and other rare natural resources. Also covertly getting licenses for resource extraction overseas in a corrupt manner.
Also assisting the west in military matters with companies like SAAB.
Scandinavian nations have the highest international profits per capita on Earth. Meaning they are extracting more value from other nations through their corporations than anyone else (per capita).
They are most imperialist nations on Earth per capita.
I don’t know much about Scandinavian countries, but I thought it was mostly neocolonialism?
Which is metaphorically fascism, because they’re both repugnant, and we want to assign neocolonialism the same moral value as fascism. But it’s not structurally fascism, in the way that colon cancer is not pancreatic cancer.
