In Business Insider yesterday:
Sweden’s strategy for dealing with the novel coronavirus so far has not included a lockdown. Instead, the country has allowed people to go to parks, bars, and restaurants and to keep working, while encouraging but largely not enforcing social distancing. It’s a strategy that most in the country appear to support. But it has sparked alarm among some experts who point to the country’s relatively high death toll, the effects on vulnerable groups, and what they say is an approach that ignores much of the best research on COVID-19.
And, the strategy did not work, with only 7.3% of the Stockholm population developing Covid-19 anti-bodies by the end of April.
Though they were to back-off under pressure, as late as early March, the UK Government’s top adviser Patrick Vallance, was clearly still in favour of it:
Britain’s chief scientific adviser stoked controversy on Friday when he said that about 40m people in the UK could need to catch the coronavirus to build up “herd immunity” and prevent the disease coming back in the future.
https://www.ft.com/content/38a81588-6508-11ea-b3f3-fe4680ea68b5
Even with the strategy moderated, vulnerable groups have suffered most and the fondness for herd immunity is revealing of a wider ideology found on the political right in England including, notably, members of the current Cabinet. It’s an ideology with its roots in Eugenics and crude Darwinism which is comfortable to see a cull of the infirm, the disabled, the ‘feckless poor’ and the psychologically ‘weak’ in the interests of a more potent, efficient, competitive society.
Back in Sweden, as recently as 1976 (!) women were being sterilised ‘with state approval to improve Swedish “racial purity” as part of a policy of “ethnic hygiene”
and:
Pregnant women seeking abortions because their foetus was damaged were told they also had to consent to sterilisation. People could even apply to have problem neighbourhood families sterilised.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates
Even more recently:
Until 2012, sterilisation was mandatory before sex change. This last mandatory sterilisation has been criticised by several political parties in Sweden and since 2011 the Parliament of Sweden was expected to change the law but ran into opposition from the Christian Democrat party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sweden
So much for Abba?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
This a a disgraceful smearpiece worthy of our MSM. The strategy adopted in Sweden cannot reasonably be judged to have failed – at least not yet – while the results of the strategy appear to compare favourably with Scotland and several other European countries. I appreciate of course that there are many in the “more compassionate than thou” camp who desperately want to see the Swedish strategy fail – but are the references to their “dark history” really necessary?
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Isn’t there a lot of comment damning the Swedish experiment?
I absolutely do not want Sweden to fail and did not know before about the very recent abuses there.
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‘The strategy adopted in Sweden cannot reasonably be judged to have failed – at least not yet’
Sweden has failed miserably the first stage of the pandemic and so has the UK. That is a fact.
Sweden 36,000 (30%) extra deaths
Denmark 300 (5%) extra deaths
Norway No Extra deaths
UK 52,000 (67%) extra deaths
(Denmark and the UK were at exactly the same point in mid March).
The next stage for all countries (bar Sweden) is where we now come out of lockdown and at first follow a way which is closer to Sweden. We can only judge the number of deaths on the past not the future. That way lies Trump like madness where every disaster can be justified by some future utopian dream.
I do find the eugenics data cited to be lacking in sources and detail and i am not sure it is that relevant to the pandemic but it is extremely interesting.
The UK swims in an ocean of more famous and much worse ethnic cleansing and we feel free to discuss it because it IS part of the ‘British’ psyche. It is dominates my desire for Independence.
Yes it looks like millions will die in the US as Trump opens up churches and the same looks like the case in South America and possibly India and if that happens Sweden which has a highly educated public will look like a success in comparison. But that will not change where it is now compared to its Scandinavian neighbours and similar countries.
Personally i don’t believe the UK gov has ever moved away from herd immunity they just do as little as they can and that is only what the public forces on them.
Scotland to our shame was still talking about herd-immunity until far too late in the disaster.
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I now think of something murkier and darker whenever Sweden is mentioned. The case of Julian Assange points to a level of complicity with USA ‘nasty’ squad aka the CIA and other base level orgs.
No, Sweden is not the country to follow AT ALL…
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