For all of the weird things my country Sweden has done (and perhaps more importantly - not done) in the past year, shaming and financially punishing people with

For all of the weird things my country Sweden has done (and perhaps more importantly - not done) in the past year, shaming and financially punishing people with covid is not one of them. The flu didn't happen here either according to the long standing sentinel testing program. https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-statistik/statistik-a-o/sjukdomsstatistik/influensa-veckorapporter/aktuell-influensarapport/ https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-st... (Swedish, published today) Summary: 145k people were tested (1.4% of the total population), 29 people tested positive for an influenza variant during the winter season 2020/2021. Typical numbers for previous years are in the thousands. Graph comparing winter seasons: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/a9433fcecdc24c788e11ea0d47fdf21b/v15-16-figur-influensa.jpg https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/a9433fcecd... (X-axis: week number, Y-axis: number of cases.)