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I assume you've never looked at a Swedish newspaper then, they've all been full of criticisms and discussions since the start.

vesinisa 6y ago
As a fellow Nordic citizen our media monitors the situation in Sweden very closely. One point that has been raised is the "consensus culture" of Swedish political discourse where no one seems brave enough to openly question the chosen policies. Even the hermit opposition party Sweden Democrats toed the government's line loyally. In lieu of domestic alternate voices, we have other Nordic health officials questioning the Swedish strategy instead: https://www.thelocal.no/20200520/interview-my-belief-is-that-we-wont-have-a-big-second-wave https://www.thelocal.no/20200520/interview-my-belief-is-that... Is Tegnell really the only credible epidemiologist in Sweden? Given that pretty much all of Europe has adopted a different strategy, that does not seem plausible. But is there anyone in the Swedish public sphere actually challenging Tegnell's ideas?
- mongol 6y ago
  Yes there have been quite many. But the sad thing is that they have been shouted down because their rethorical skills were not that good. So the discussion turned dishonest, not interpreting their viewpoints with the best intent.
  - vesinisa 6y ago
    Exactly. Life and death of thouands of people should not be decided based on someone's charisma alone. Even if something is done in the name of a scientific experiment - like Tegnell's unique policy - it is outregeously unethical if this causes avoidable mass death to innocent civilians. Sadly Sweden is no stranger to application of questionable and unethical scientific experiments to the masses. The country had an extensive Nazi-inspired eugenics programme from 1930s all the way up to the late 1970s: https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates The very existence of this programme was a secret until the early 2000s, and to this day continues to be a taboo in Sweden.

vesinisa 6y ago

As a fellow Nordic citizen our media monitors the situation in Sweden very closely. One point that has been raised is the "consensus culture" of Swedish political discourse where no one seems brave enough to openly question the chosen policies. Even the hermit opposition party Sweden Democrats toed the government's line loyally. In lieu of domestic alternate voices, we have other Nordic health officials questioning the Swedish strategy instead: https://www.thelocal.no/20200520/interview-my-belief-is-that-we-wont-have-a-big-second-wave https://www.thelocal.no/20200520/interview-my-belief-is-that... Is Tegnell really the only credible epidemiologist in Sweden? Given that pretty much all of Europe has adopted a different strategy, that does not seem plausible. But is there anyone in the Swedish public sphere actually challenging Tegnell's ideas?

mongol 6y ago
Yes there have been quite many. But the sad thing is that they have been shouted down because their rethorical skills were not that good. So the discussion turned dishonest, not interpreting their viewpoints with the best intent.
- vesinisa 6y ago
  Exactly. Life and death of thouands of people should not be decided based on someone's charisma alone. Even if something is done in the name of a scientific experiment - like Tegnell's unique policy - it is outregeously unethical if this causes avoidable mass death to innocent civilians. Sadly Sweden is no stranger to application of questionable and unethical scientific experiments to the masses. The country had an extensive Nazi-inspired eugenics programme from 1930s all the way up to the late 1970s: https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/06/stephenbates The very existence of this programme was a secret until the early 2000s, and to this day continues to be a taboo in Sweden.