This again proves that no one (really) knows what is going on. Everyone is guessing. I doubt very much that Sweden knows what it is doing, but just "experimenting" and hoping that if it works the world will bow to us as the saviour. I mean, Norway (m.m.) must have looked at our death rate and listened to our theories .... it sounded good so they let us in. So now what? Is Norway going to let us back in once our death figures go down, ignoring our methods? I don't think so, but .... who knows what they are thinking? The logical conclusion would be that our method is no good but maybe there are other circumstances that do not disprove a solid method. We're all working in the dark.
No, don't say that no one really knows what's going on. There are many things we do know at this point, and there are many we don't know.
What I do know for a fact at this point is that Sweden has been flying blind almost from the beginning and based its strategy on Tegnell's claims about the development of the pandemic. Claims that he often pulled out of his ass based on nothing whatsoever. One of his ridiculous assumptions, for instance, was that Swedes were so superior to all other nationalities that its population of old people probably wouldn't be affected much because old Swedes were healthier than everybody else's old people, and Sweden's health care was superior to health care in Southern Europe. You know, those primitive Mediterraneans just can't cope in comparison with Sweden, so Sweden would never have the number of deaths that Italy had. For some reason, it's a story we don't hear much anymore.
It already helped when the Italian ambassador pulled out statistics that proved the idea of Italian inferiority wrong.
Months ago, Tegnell more or less ordered Denmark to open up its borders for Scanians because the number of infections in Scania allegedly was lower than than the corresponding number in Copenhagen. And it was, of course. It was a fact, but it was also a fact that people in Scania weren't
tested nearly as much as people in Copenhagen, which fortunately occurred to the Danish health authorities before they opened up again.
I imagine that Norway very recently opened its borders to people from Scania because it was also fooled by Sweden's appeal to (misleading) statistics.
Throughout this pandemic, Sweden, led by Tegnell, has been trying to prove to the world how well it was doing, and it has been doing so by presenting its misleading statistics to a world, which, for the most part, is unaware how incomparable Sweden's numbers of new cases have been to their own the whole time.
You can't expect journalists to know all the details. In the early months of the Swedish outbreak, for instance, I read Greta Thunberg's story of how she and her father
might have had Covid-19! They both got sick, but since Sweden didn't even test people with symptoms, there was no way of knowing if they had had Covid-19 or not. People were only tested when they were hospitalized. A lot of them probably still are. And that is the reason that makes it so ridiculous when Gavin presents this number and expects it to prove something
That is another
fact that we can be absolutely sure about.
That is something that we do know, and that is what makes most Swedish claims insane. I am not even sure if Sweden knows about all of its nursing home deaths: When you prescribe palliative care long distance, i.e. by phone, i.e. letting people die in the nursing homes in spite of available beds in ICUs, then I no longer trust anything said by ******** like Tegnell and Giesecke. By the way, this Swedish version of long-distance triage isn't something that I hear Tegnell and Giesecke brag about when they are talking to journalists abroad - or in Sweden. But it is much easier to make foreigners think that the Swedish health-care system wasn't overwhelmed, i.e. that at least this part of the Swedish strategy worked, when you can just point at the Swedish (******* useless)
numbers.
You are new to this thread, Clutch Cargo. If you really want to
know what has been going on in Sweden for the past several months, you should go back and
start at the beginning, April 4, 2020. The story about the Italian ambassador, for instance, is in there somewhere. But you can also choose to take the blue pill and simply believe everything Tegnell and his fanboys tell you. You know, what Gavin seems to be doing.
All of the above. That's the point.
Yes, there is still more to understand, but I think that this is yet another one of Tegnell's and Giesecke's lies you have taken to heart: Because we can't know
everything about how this pandemic is going to end until it does, we can't know
anything along the way.
That Sweden has been flying blind from the start makes it much easier for them to make this claim, but we still know
how Sweden has been flying blind and
why: Because that's the way the two ******** wanted it, and they have been busy covering up for it ever since.
I am still amazed that Swedes didn't seem to question Tegnell's authority even when he refused to believe that New Zealand had managed to hammer down the virus as successfully as they did. He declared that it was
"impossible!" How can you trust a psychopath like this and let him be in charge of your health and lives? Do you have any reason to trust him other than a need to believe in Swedish exceptionalism?
