Tuesday, August 11, 2020

John Wright Interviews Professor Tim Anderson About Covid-19

Podcast: Tim Andersen and John Wright hold my views on Covid-19. They talk about the neoliberals, the conservatives, and the populist liberals who believe their individual rights are being taken away during this pandemic.





Markus Balázs Göransson says the Swedish middle class, the young, and the fit have abandoned the poor, the vulnerable, and the old. 



Responsibility of the Swedish left for Sweden’s COVID-19 tragedy, by Markus Balázs Göransson

Why have the Swedish authorities not taken more vigorous steps to slow the spread of a virus that has taken such an unequal toll?



4 comments:

Peter Pan said...

As opposed to other western countries who respect their elders?
Provinces in Canada enacted a lockdown, and sent Covid patients to nursing homes where they infected the most vulnerable. To date, no accountability for that blunder.

You have to go to Asia to find cultures that respect the old.

NeilW said...

And yet the epidemic is over in Sweden. Something that will be increasingly apparent if the death rate continues at its very low level for many more weeks.

Then arguing that Sweden was anything other than a reasonable response will come across exactly as it is - Stalinist in viewpoint where a small group of people should precisely control the lives of others.

It could have been better, but none of that was due to the lack of following the Globalist Script - as the evidence from Belgium, Peru and even the UK demonstrates.

The actual impact is caused if the virus gets into care homes. That's when deaths go sky high. Some nations don't really have care homes in that way. And some have protected them better.

Remember that Beveridge's book was entitled "Full employment in a Free Society". The "Free Society" bit is very important.

You can always tell when somebody is spinning a line they use the "unlike its Nordic neighbours" line.

The base fact is that Sweden has a death rate that is 10 times less than that predicted by the Globalists. Which means the Globalists are wrong about the virus and how to deal with it. It's time they shut up.

Marian Ruccius said...

As usual Neil Wilson is very correct. It is also worth noting that those who say their liberties and rights are being infringed are quite correct -- constraining people's liberty temporarily, in an emergency, is legitimate and necessary. Longer term concerns about "slippery slope" erosion of rights are also valid -- we need to remain vigilant and active in ensuring that our full liberties are restored as the pandemic abates -- but not before. The only qualifier to this is that excessively draconian measures frequently elicit the opposite response. So the "touch" has to be as heavy as necessary and as light as possible in the circumstances.

Peter Pan said...

Like the War on terror, this may be a permanent emergency.