Sweden Tired Of All The Dying

[Byker]

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| Sweden's Covid-19 experiment is over.
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| After a late autumn surge in infections led to rising
| hospitalizations and deaths, the government has abandoned
| its attempt--unique among Western nations--to combat the
| pandemic through voluntary measures.

If only they could keep it confined to the "migrants"...

[B1ackwater]

Post by Byker

|
| Sweden's Covid-19 experiment is over.
|
| After a late autumn surge in infections led to rising
| hospitalizations and deaths, the government has abandoned
| its attempt--unique among Western nations--to combat the
| pandemic through voluntary measures.

If only they could keep it confined to the "migrants"...

Well, I'm not THAT hateful - and the 'migrants' did not
create the Covid situation (many OTHER unpleasant
situations however).

All in all though, Sweden did remarkably well. Even now
its infection/death rates are WAY below France and Italy
and Spain and the UK.

Now part of this may be "cultural". Swedes are not into
"chit-chatting", "small-talk", and that may have reduced
the opportunities for person-2-person transmission.
Their group social-dynamic is just different from the
packed-in touchy-feelie hugging-on-everybody cultures
more common to southern europe.

What really happened is that the infection situation became
more than Swedes WANTED to bear. A little problem seems
like a big problem to them. The nanny-state led them to
expect near-invulnerability. Covid revealed that the nanny-state
can only do so much, that they are mortal after all, that Super-Nan
is a myth.