1) After 2014, intl media got obsessed with Sweden. Why? Refugees. Immigrants to Sweden, and Swedish policy, given heavy coverage. They were framed as a national "problem" and a "threat" to culture, economy, society. Immigration, we were told, was a big issue. Then came #COVID19.

2) Immigrant groups in Sweden (esp. Somalis, Iraqis & Syrians) have seen per capita #COVID19 mortality rates much higher than rest of Swedish population. So, did the media outlets that placed so much emphasis on immigration to Sweden over the years cover this fact? No way.

3) After years telling us immigrants/refugees in Sweden were newsworthy, intl press suddenly decides that these people aren't that important, after all. You don't have to be a media researcher to get the framing here: immigrants only newsworthy when a threat, not as victims.

4) #COVID19 has exposed the hypocrisy and ethno-centrism of media that ascribed huge impact to a small % of the Swedish population (immigrants and refugees) when they arrived, but have air-brushed them out of Sweden when that same group suffered disproportionately from disease.

5) For years, we read US/UK "opinion" pieces from people who claimed to be Oh-So-Concerned-For-Sweden™. Where are the opinion pieces from the same authors about the deaths of immigrants in Sweden from #COVID19? Or, was the "concern" just limited to the non-immigrant population?

6) Let's not sugarcoat: huge part of intl media obsession w/Sweden rooted in ethno-centric fantasies of a lost "homogeneous Sweden," combined w/antagonism toward "leftist" social democracy. How immigration is discussed, and how immigrants are erased from #COVID19, reinforce this.

7) I find the double-standards exhibited by all elements of the media regarding #COVID19 in Sweden in relation to minority populations to be striking and disturbing. I expand on those issues here. https://medium.com/@ChrChristensen/want-to-discuss-sweden-and-covid19-start-by-looking-backward-ea83ab6b08ab?source=friends_link&sk=bf98083a9012f6fc607640b675aec0a0