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View submission: [Sweden] Frustrating Hypocrisy in Sweden, Hypocritical Attitudes Worldwide
I just checked the statistical data: In fact, Sweden hat a surplus-mortality of 7,2 % in 2020. But from then on the numbers have been relatively fine (-0.2 %, 1,6%, and 0.2%) in comparison to other countries.
It is strange to see how the members of pluralistic societies are dealing with the passed-by COVID-crisis these days! Everybody likes to accuse others of allegedly "wrong" behavior now: When COVID was rampant, some critics had the stamina to say that COVID could be handled in more rigid way, according to the successful Wuhan model, and that the modern parsimony in medical services and medical equipment has lead to an insufficient prepartion for unusual events. Now the conspiration theoreticians seem to form the absolute majority: They affirm that COVID never really existed, that it was only an invention to test whether the members of the population were willing to renounce to their fundamental rights. Others say, it was a virus released on purpose by a Wuhan laboratory, etc. The tenor of them all seems to be that the responsible work of the governments and its health institutions was rubbish, unreflected, if not deceitful. Nobody knows these things for sure, but everyone wants to play the critic today and is looking for some dirt in the official files. (In reality, the assessment of the dangerousness and infectiousness of the disease could of course differ from place to place, and the countries of the Western world were mostly seeking a compromise between liberty and rigidity.)
I think, the best the "experts" and other enraged citizens can do, is: to analyze the extraordinary event without accusing or reproaching anybody, in order to make it better, when the next pandemic is going to happen.
It is known that the government of Sweden initially thought that extraordinary measures were not necessary. But did it hinder anybody to stay at home in the free time, wash the hands with alcohol, to wear a face mask or to get a vaccination at the doctor's?
Comment by M004L97 at 26/02/2025 at 07:36 UTC
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It didn't hinder them at all.
I heard that the only reason they didn't wear masks is because FHM never recommended it. Swedes need authorities to "recommend" them something in order to do it. They value the tone more than substance. The moral calm as some might call it.
If the tone shifts slightly, you won't be taken seriously. Unless you're the authority. Marginalised people however? What do we know that the authorities don't, am I right?