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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/man-behind-sweden-s-virus-strategy-says-he-got-some-things-wrongSweden’s head epidemiologist admits he’s got it wrong.
Thanks for posting, Lenny.First, it's nice to see a leader of any kind - medical, political, academic, financial, business, sports, science, etc - admit mistakes. Not nearly enough of this. There are some who will never do it, thinks it makes them look "weak" when the opposite is true.As for COVID, maybe, at least temporarily, this will put to rest the narrative by far too many (though not many Scoopers, thankfully) that Sweden got it "right" by letting its citizens die and suffer while everybody else got it "wrong."
Sweden admitted some mistakes, the chief of the strategy also reiterated it was a good strategy and primarily at issue were the elderly. This is no different than what he said 6 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago and again last week.He specifically defended the lockdown strategy. They have said for quite some time they did not adequately protect the elderly. "There are things that we could have done better but in general I think that Sweden has chosen the right way," Sweden's chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said Wednesday, in an interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.They look to improve on their approach, as they should. Norway's leader last week said their country went too far and should have adopted more Swedish proposals. Sounds to me like both countries are understanding the draconian approach was too much, and the too soft approach especially with the elderly was too little.https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/europe/sweden-coronavirus-lockdown-intl/index.html
WarriorDad celebrating the deaths in Sweden:
It's more like:
Fluffy Blue Monster, Pakuni, Hards Alumni view on suicide increases from COVID reaction by their government.
Except I do care. People will find all sorts of reasons to kill themselves, and they should seek help before they come to that decision. Never a single time did I say, nor even insinuate, that suicides related to COVID19 are necessary. Yet, you don't seem to care about the deaths in Sweden. You've thanked them for their sacrifice and said that, "someone had to do it". Do you realize how ghoulish that sounds? It's despicable.
Are you also tracking the number of suicides in Sweden for comparison?
Oh I care. I'm just not going to pretend that the number of suicides will exceed the number of Covid deaths like you are.
I appreciate warriordad laying to waste one of Chico's mewling canards. Jamie always said that it doesn't matter what is said, it matters who says it. Since WD is clearly not Chico's, but says the same things in the same way using much the same grammar, engendering the same visceral reactions, clearly it is what is said, not who says it.
What about 'engendering' and 'visceral?'
Norway, Denmark and Finland have all closed their borders to people from Sweden.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-pariah-scandinavia.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes