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Did you ever hear something and felt "What the fuck!?"?
I did in early 2020, from Swedens chief epidemiologist Tegnell and his boss. Dangerous ideas about SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic response.
Nobody shut them down, it is now causing deaths and civil unrest in other countries.
I did in early 2020, from Swedens chief epidemiologist Tegnell and his boss. Dangerous ideas about SARS-CoV-2 and pandemic response.
Nobody shut them down, it is now causing deaths and civil unrest in other countries.
Day after day, crazy statements were made. The growing pandemic and it's danger was dismissed. The papers that were out about chronic health issues and mortality rates were ignored. Every bad judgement call that could be taken, was made. Low quality work, twisting truth & data.
I've been sitting here all this time, just waiting for these incompetent charlatans to have their lying and total lack of understanding for the problem domain they try to pose as experts in exposed. 100s of time i thought "Surely, people in Sweden can't buy this shit?".
Of course I am just one of the many people in Sweden that didn't buy the continuous stream of bullshit and dangerous ideas, but the problem is that many people appeared to quarantine their critical thinking when the pandemic hit, enough people in 
for the insanity to survive.
for the insanity to survive.
People who didn't really think it appeared to be a good idea to let a novel virus roam a population, was ridiculed and harassed by a cult like following of Tegnell and the Swedish herd immunity experiment. Researchers engaging in debate and criticizing stuff, got attacked.
I don't know how, but those leading our pandemic response, cheating with numbers, failing with pretty much everything, and lying to the Swedish people about our actual strategy, they somehow still got their job. Enough people in Sweden, didn't see the kind of bullshit they pulled
I can surely not be the only swede that have felt like "What the fuck? People are dying! These fools don't have a clue about what they are doing, they ruin my country and cause so much personal tragedies with their actions".
These problems should have been nipped in the bud.
These problems should have been nipped in the bud.
Well, the dangerous ideas weren't stopped in Sweden as they should've. A weak batch of Swedish government, where those who should have shut down the extremists at our health agency probably haven't read a single scientific paper on the pandemic, likely played a part in that.
As the only thing our current government appear to think about is appearance, and the political game, they appear to have spent more time trying to promote Sweden as a good example for other countries, than learning what others did well. This combined poorly with dangerous ideas.
Had our ruling party had a stronger lineup for this government, I believe that things would have turned out another way. Now they appear to just have been too easy to fool to buy in to our stupid strategy. Amateurs too weak and vote-hungry to sort it out as they should have.
Swedens poor response was not exposed for the failure it was. The failure to acknowledge Sweden's failed response this spring, and call out the bullshit from those leading our pandemic response in Sweden...Now appear to have tragic consequences for people in other countries.
In a surreal turn of events, not only are the same fools I heard in the beginning of the year and their crazy ideas, not properly handled here in Sweden, it now appears that the very same people are playing a relevant role for problems in other countries.
So these fuckers have become some kind of point of reference, to some crazy-ass movements in other countries that wants their governments to do stuff that will cost many lives. Suddenly this stupidity leads the way on the team that replaces Fauci in US. Barrington declaration etc
It is true that Sweden in many ways is a developed country, that does good in advanced fields. Many people in Sweden are smart and honorable, but people outside of Sweden has to understand....
..that the people that are riding on Sweden's good name when selling their dangerous ideas on herd immunity, are just plain stupid people in the wrong position. They're also the kind of people, that never admit mistakes, nor take responsibility for their failures no matter what.
Prestige is important here, and it goes as a red line through all their work with the pandemic response that a priority is to make things they are responsible for, look successful. The response however was a flop, no matter how many deaths these people remove from our statistics.
I really respect people that take responsibility for their actions , we all make mistakes. As I value this quality and have experienced other situations where people have done crazy stuff to try and preserve their prestige and image, I have observed Tegnell and Carlson on this.
No matter the situation, no matter the obvious mistakes...These guys have just never taken responsibility or acknowledged that something they have done strays away from the image they have of themselves and try to preserve for themselves and others. Not once...Not very healthy.
The few seemingly self critical statements they have done(when pushed by journalists to reflect critically on actions), has not really been self critical in terms of accepting they have played a part in things that did not go well.
When acknowledging some kind of failure, they have every time used some cognitive gymnastics to save their ego, perhaps not on purpose, but cognitive gymnastics nonetheless,such as directing blame elsewhere in the same line of thought where they had just acknowledged some problem
The point I am trying to make here is that these guys that are "representing Sweden" in other countries, talking to media and selling the image of a Swedish success in terms of the pandemic..They would sell the same success-story every time, no matter what the actual outcome was.
It is just how they work, they will never admit mistakes. They will always try to portray things they are responsible for as a success. In other situations it might be a mere annoyance, but this is a pandemic where these guys failed miserably at their jobs and had dangerous ideas
Not really the best timing to let some stupid swedes that are out of touch with reality, have a global platform where they can plant and fuel dangerous ideas about how it's smart not to try to stop the virus with the methods proved to be working well. But this is what happened.
I don't know why the guy that is supposed to protect my people and lead my country's pandemic response, spend so much time every week talking with the media in other countries. I also don't know how he can still be allowed to have the mandate to officially represent Sweden.
Sweden failed. The ideas & people responsible for our failure, now appear to contribute to other countries spread. Civil unrest from anti-maskers that have been fooled to believe the swedish response is anything else than a failure. Sweden as a success-story is disinformation.
It feels sad when I follow discussions about the pandemic in other countries, and see people unaware of what has been going on here refer to Sweden as some kind of justification for dangerous ideas.
It's never gonna be a good idea to let novel viruses roam a population.
It's never gonna be a good idea to let novel viruses roam a population.
