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Tegnell: "Stockholm and those other cities have big populations from other countries, which is important, because the spread is much bigger and quicker among those populations." https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2020/10/sweden-s-anders-tegnell-we-did-not-pursue-herd-immunity-against-covid-19
So now Coronavirus is the immigrants fault? (thread)
So now Coronavirus is the immigrants fault? (thread)
Or maybe the issue, like many of other "immigrant" issues in Sweden has to do with poverty and segregation? https://www.thelocal.se/20200702/more-face-masks-lower-trust-in-authorities-how-people-in-swedens-vulnerable-areas-reacted-to-the-coronavirus https://sciencenorway.no/epidemic-society-and-culture-virus/immigrants-and-men-with-low-incomes-and-low-education-levels-more-likely-to-die-of-covid-19/1705670
On the left you can see Tegnells registered house in the middle of nowhere (in general the kind of house where medium/high class aims to live and, now, work from home). On the right, Rinkeby one of the neighbourhoods most afflicted by #COVID19 where people get low paying jobs.
People on Tegnell's neighbourhood make on average 31900 SEK per month (source removed to keep his privacy), people on Rinkeby 17100 ( https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/rinkeby-tjanar-minst-i-lon).
Unlike Tegnell, I do live in one of these areas where shootings happen every now and then and the average income is 16000 SEK, not because I can't afford better but because there is a serious housing problem and I don't want to buy.
One of my neighbours went to work at an elder house with fever because he couldn't afford not to. Others go around rummaging bottles to be able to pay their expenses. We were sharing 3 toilets for ca 100 people during the renovations during the coronavirus.
In fact the toilet had hand washing soap and instructions on how to ensure clean hands because I cared to print them and buy it, because the landlord does win if the neighbours die or leave as he can rent the "renovated" houses at a higher price.
Most people here can't afford to use their car to go to work, filling instead the public transport during peak hours... Which has now reduced the amount of seating space to protect the drivers increasing concentrations of people.
Cleaners, drivers, store clerks, delivery men, laborers, factory workers... cannot work remotely and these are the most common job types in these neighborhoods. I actually am the exception!
So maybe, before blaming it into the immigrants who support this wretched society, we should take a minute to think what are the real causes behind the issue and act on them. Housing problems are unaddressed for years, integration policies and the social staircase fail hardly...
It is easy to keep social distancing when your nearest neighbour is a kilometer away and you take your car to work which you park directly in the office garage. It is not so easy when you have a large family sharing a 2 bedroom apartment and depend on public transport.
Or maybe, just maybe what most decision makers need is to live with these "immigrants" to get a grasp of the hardness they endure daily and why things happen instead of just simplisitically (and xenophobically) blaming issues on them. (End of thread)
