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> Sweden readily admits that its approach was a terrible mistake. It does?!? Funny, how can I have totally missed something as big as that? I'm a Swedish "exp
by CRConrad 5y ago
> Sweden readily admits that its approach was a terrible mistake.
It does?!? Funny, how can I have totally missed something as big as that?
I'm a Swedish "expat"; I have now lived abroad for just a little longer than I lived in Sweden (26 vs 26.5 years), but I've always followed Swedish media and I still travel there regularly. All I've seen is some hemming and hawing about "Perhaps not totally optimal"; far from any flat-out admission of "terrible mistake". And when I spent a long weekend there three weeks ago, the populace at large certainly didn't seem aware of any such thing.
Got any handy links to this admission by Sweden?
- collinmanderson 5y agoHere a link about lockdowns: https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientist-behind-swedens-no-lockdown-policy-says-it-wasnt-strict-enough-11591196353 https://www.wsj.com/articles/scientist-behind-swedens-no-loc... > The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial decision to forgo a mandatory lockdown conceded for the first time that more restrictions might have helped prevent a surge in coronavirus-related deaths.
- CRConrad 5y agoBut "might have helped prevent a surge" feels pretty far from "admits that its approach was a terrible mistake".