Posted on 08/04/2021 6:36:40 AM PDT by rktman
The progressive left loves pointing to Scandinavia for reference on how to approach the alleged shortcomings of America's capitalist system.
But unlike with the "Nordic model" of economics, the left isn't as quick to embrace one Scandinavian country's practice that's been different from our own -- namely, its pandemic response.
Sweden continues to tout some of the lowest COVID infection rates we've seen, despite minimum public activity restrictions, unlike those we've seen at home in the U.S., but will our authoritarian officials ever acknowledge it?
The Swedish government's decision to keep the country operating with minimum disruption received immense backlash from COVID extremists across the spectrum during the early days of the pandemic.
Cecilia Söderberg-Nauclér, a virus immunology researcher at the Karolinska Institute, said last year that Sweden's pandemic response was "leading [the country] into catastrophe," according to The Guardian.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
The Swedes probably did not have to deal with fights at WalMart and other exemplary forms of behaviour from Democrat voting constituencies.
Keep in mind that Scandinavians are generally isolated and respect one another’s space. Americans, at least in the cities, are much more tolerant of being right up one another’s keisters.
Fauci flu deaths.
Percent of Population:
0.19% USA
0.14% Sweden
Guess that’s the bottom line when you boil it down.
I know someone has that made out of firearms makers logos.
Metropolitan NY was the epicenter of COVID because of the masses and mass transportation.
Because of the massive population, they were unable to restrict mass transportation. Every crowded bus and subway car was a super spreader event.
Subway conductors and bus drivers could be heard saying..
“All aboard, the COVID express!” “It’s FREE of charge to all who ride. No refunds.”
BRING ON THE HERD!
The ONLY way to be sure.
Actually, however, they do not. The fact that the separate independent actions of numbers of people may result in significant negative consequences to others by virtue of their cumulative effect is simply not the personal responsibility of any of the individuals concerned. It should not be a basis for prohibiting his actions. To prohibit the action of an individual in such a case is to hold him personally responsible for something for which he is simply not in fact personally responsible. It is exactly the same in principle as punishing him for something he did not do. This might be necessary for an acute emergency pandemic situation but is inappropriate in a chronic phase.
The chronic phase should be treated like any other act of nature. In these types of situations, the individual is not responsible for the act of nature, and should not be held responsible for any negative effects. And so, the natural rights of individuals should be respected, and they should be left free to respond to the acts of nature in the way most to their own advantage and rational self-interest.
Less than 15% of the Swedish population is fully vaccinated.
Oh, no, my error: over 60% vaxxed.
It would not surprise me if most of the unvaxxed are “foreigners”
Prime Minister Desantissen?
//The Swedes probably did not have to deal with fights at WalMart and other exemplary forms of behaviour from Democrat voting constituencies.
From what I understand they have imported a bunch of uncivilized 3rd worlder satan worshippers, so they might have some problems of that kind.
So the threats or promises that if we did nothing we would have lost 2% of the population is all bunk? That is what you hear NOW from proponents of the USA approach. It WOULD have been 1 to 2%.
Yes, Canada did the same with Syrians.
This place lately makes CNN look truthful.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-idUSKBN2920WH
“As of April 16, 2021, more than 13 700 people have died from COVID-19 in Sweden. The country has one of the highest infection rates in western Europe according to Our World in Data COVID-19 statistics, with 606 new infections per million per day, while its neighbours Denmark, Finland, and Norway reported 115, 62, and 112 new infections per million per day, respectively (April 15, 2021). New and more infective and deadly variants have taken over, and by April 15, 2021, the UK SARS-Cov-2 variant was supected to have caused 75–100% of all new cases in all regions. This indicates more rapid spread, more deaths, and that more young people will be affected, with intensive care units already at full capacity in some regions.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00885-0/fulltext
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