Monday, March 30, 2020

Fighting COVID-19 The Swedish Way

Here's a report about how they're coping in Sweden:

https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/sweden-is-not-using-authoritarian-controls-economic-shutdowns-to-fight-the-pandemic_03302020

You can find additional details here:

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/coronavirus-schweden-stockholm-oeffentliches-leben/komplettansicht [translation from German required]

Assuming this is true and their strategy is successful, it shows how screwed up we are in the USA.

Update 4/2/2020

Whoops! It looks like they're changing their minds about this:

https://summit.news/2020/04/01/sweden-begins-to-abandon-liberal-coronavirus-approach-as-deaths-surge/

2 comments:

  1. Here is a discussion of why Swedes apparently changed their minds:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/catastrophe-sweden-coronavirus-stoicism-lockdown-europe

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  2. Now Sweden is doubling down on their lenient policy:

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/europe/sweden-lockdown-turmp-intl/index.html

    ... in spite of an apparent increase in the number of COVID19 deaths:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/sweden-resorts-storing-bodies-ice-rinks-covid-19-deaths-soar

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