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| ‘It's been so, so surreal.' Critics of Sweden's lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash |
| 2020-11-06 |
| [ScienceMag] Ewing worries the fight has left permanent scars. He says at least three more members of the Vetenskaps forum are considering leaving Sweden, as Brusselaers did. And even if it turns out that the country has built up enough immunity to evade a new wave of disease, he says, the price has been too high. "I worry that countries around the world are going to say, ’We can try what Sweden did.; But we have killed too many people already." Related: Sweden: 2020-11-02 Malmo terminates Arab Book Fair amid revelation of antisemitic texts Sweden: 2020-10-30 Coronavirus: ‘Futile and immoral' to seek herd immunity, says Sweden's chief epidemiologist Sweden: 2020-10-27 Mladenov: PA at risk of economic collapse unless ties with Israel renewed |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #2 Faced with the reality of a winter surge, Sweden is finally bringing in some harsher restrictions after months of being one of the few countries with no lockdown They're not different, they are just very very slow - brains freezing in winter, or something. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-11-06 08:10 |
| #1 Lockdown just prolongs the time that cases of COVID remain high and prevents herd immunity that is currently saving Sweden. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-11-06 04:52 |