Interview with GOD and a Swede

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Anders Tegnell is ”the State Chief Epidemiologist of Sweden”, or whatever that would be called in English.

There are other reasons to Sweden having more deaths than eg Norway and Finland. Our homes for the elderly have been sadly neglected over the years, people who work there are orten not esp trained/skilled/educated, many work zero hour contracts, and generally have poor working conditions. In Norway homes for the elderly are more like nursery homes with better qualified staff, better possibilities to seal off wards that have been infected etc.

A majority of our deaths are of Somali and Iraqi descent, Finland have over the years almost zero immigration.

Then, the overall view here is to look at the bigger picture, and also take into account how many deaths and health problems lock downs and similar measures cause, many believe they’d cause more, and I tend to agree.

Then, the international media picture sometimes say ”Sweden haven’t done anything, everything goes on as usual” - well, that’s simply not true.

Some countries with early and severe lock downs have been hit really hard, eg Belgium.

This is very complex and there is no way now to know about ”the best and most correct way to go about it”.

And, yes, I do blame China.

Your comments re care homes for the elderly could have been written about the UK.

He came across really well. I really liked his candour and made some sense to me. He freely admitted that even as an expert he didn't know if his ideas were the best in contrast to many both experts and non-experts here and I guess everywhere who are convinced they have all the answers. It was called 'herd immunity' here. Let people catch it in a 'controlled' way ensuring hospitals could cope. He commented Sweden had managed this.

I certainly don't see it as 'Sweden doing nothing.' I said early on not locking down early etc and taking a different approach was the brave approach not the cowardly way our govt was, and still is being accused of.

Stay safe.

Here is a link to the programme if you are able to access. Your guy is on at about 1hour 21mins in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000hhsn