This so called "scandal" was an incident that was milked to it's maximum potential by the political opposition as an attempt to discredit the government with th

This so called "scandal" was an incident that was milked to it's maximum potential by the political opposition as an attempt to discredit the government with the aim to provoke a vote of no confidence in the parliament. The attempt failed, not because the government made any serious attempt at defending itself, like tracing the mishap back to the previous government, but because the government ceded defeat and sacrificed a few of it's ministers rather than go on the counteroffensive. It did however reveal a pattern of "siloed" decision making with the Swedish government under the present prime minister, a leadership style that puts emphasis on strict division of responsibilities and where the prime ministers office is kept unaware of everything except the really major events in the various ministries (in part in order to maintain credible deniability no doubt, but in part also because this is a long standing Swedish tradition and in part enshrined in law). The same pattern reveals itself under the present pandemic, where the government (and the opposition initially) argued for letting the public health agency (FHM) take the full responsibility of the Swedish strategy, with no interference from the politicians, in spite the soon glaring fact that the strategy was hijacked by a minority position within the scientific community (the "herd immunity" believers), and that the strategy has put Sweden in an (for the Swedes) unfamiliar pariah state position visavis neighboring countries. Admitting failure is still a long way off, in spite of the virus still running rampant in the society. In part because of the above mentioned long standing Swedish tradition which has close to full support across all party-lines. But also because of the almost endearing trust that Swedes put in their authorities. The people that are protesting are almost always foreigners or from communities with some distance from Swedish traditions for other reasons, like Sweden's Jewish intellectuals who have (with close to one voice) criticized the strategy from day one.