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.
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 was literally about to post "ah yes, the Cuomo model" but you beat me to it.
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:
Yeah I've known about the Swedish strategy since then, but I didn't know just how bad and deep the rot went until I read the report on nature.
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.
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?
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.
Does this stat include all those tax heaven micronations? Because if it does it's really surprising.
Tax Havens hold the capital but do not receive the surplus/profit, they only get a small thin slice of it.
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.
Nations have a right to their own natural resources, that’s only natural. The imperialism of Scandinavian states does not come through its nationalized oil production, but from its multinational corporations which generate superprofits outside their nations through massive value extraction
I was more referring to oil companies in those countries getting resource extraction rights overseas in dodgy deals. I'll edit to be more clear.
But you're right, corporations like H&M with their massive extraction of surplus value are the main ways.
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.
Facing reality is scary, but being denied life saving medical care and dying an undignified death on painkillers is cool and good ™
Social democracy moment strikes again!
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]
have you ever considered old people dont make capitalists much money so we should just kill em all :sweden-cool:
The more this thread goes on, the more mask off social democracies are revealed to be.
Shit like this happens so much to the elderly in many different countries. There is some serious nurse ratcheds out there, but this seems like more of a disgusting top down order than individual demonic nurses thing. This is especially heinous
The nature article does say that the government tried to blame immigrants and low income workers
