I'm surprised at this, Sweden is considered a very social democratic country, but it looks like big business hijacked its public health policy.
Foreign Affairs just published an article that attempts to depict the failed Swedish approach to Covid-19 as not just a success, but even the way of the future. I suppose if you regard failed state in the making like the US as a harbinger, you could view this description as accurate. But nations that aspire to better like South Korea, New Zealand, Germany, and the Czech Republic, would beg to differ. As reader juno mas put it earlier this week, “For a relatively rural, isolated nation, Sweden is a train wreck.”
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Yves Smith - Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco
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If you look at those bell curves Yves presents, quite a few show an uptick as if to start ANOTHER bell curve.
So what's better, one large bell curve and you're done or multiple shutdowns of the economy with multiple smaller bell curves?
My bet is the Swedes have the correct approach given they have the necessary medical capacity.
Sweden takes better care of its elderly.
Sweden and Brazil are doing better than some of the "lockdown" nations.
Sweden and Brazil outcomes are not apocalyptic.
Taiwan and several Asian countries were able to contain the virus without shutting down their economies. In other words, they were prepared.
The West will not learn, they will aspire to ever higher levels of incompetence.
Hold your politicians to account, or this will happen again.
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