For this reason alone, Sweden and others like them, have already won the policy debate, as well as the scientific one too.
On the European front, the Scandinavian country of Sweden is now garnering more attention than before, and has become an object of both criticism and fascination for those against or in favor of lockdown policy.
While countries like the United States and Great Britain continue to top the global tables in terms of COVID-19 death tolls, Sweden has only suffered marginal casualties in comparison, while avoiding the intense strain on society and loss in public confidence which lockdown governments are now grappling with as they continue to push their populations to the limits of social stress and economic tolerance.
As western lockdown countries drift further and further into an economic and social purgatory, nonlockdown countries like Sweden seem to be the target of bad-natured criticism by western media punditry.
In lockdown countries, the bad blood between the public and government will not evaporate after the 'crisis' is over, which is a real problem which lockdown governments will continue facing in the future.
The propaganda war could be seen in the paper's subtle wordsmithing, where editors even went so far as to change their headline from "WHO lauds Sweden as 'model' in coronavirus fight for resisting lockdown," to a slightly more incendiary "WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a 'model' for countries going forward".
To put things in even more perspective, while Sweden has already suffered 2,586 COVID deaths in 2020, back in 2018 there were approximately 6,997 total respiratory disease deaths in Sweden - and the country's healthcare capacity was not overrun, nor were any of their public systems stretched to breaking point.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/covid-why-sweden-has-already-won-the-debate-on-covid-19-lockdown-policy/
On the European front, the Scandinavian country of Sweden is now garnering more attention than before, and has become an object of both criticism and fascination for those against or in favor of lockdown policy.
While countries like the United States and Great Britain continue to top the global tables in terms of COVID-19 death tolls, Sweden has only suffered marginal casualties in comparison, while avoiding the intense strain on society and loss in public confidence which lockdown governments are now grappling with as they continue to push their populations to the limits of social stress and economic tolerance.
As western lockdown countries drift further and further into an economic and social purgatory, nonlockdown countries like Sweden seem to be the target of bad-natured criticism by western media punditry.
In lockdown countries, the bad blood between the public and government will not evaporate after the 'crisis' is over, which is a real problem which lockdown governments will continue facing in the future.
The propaganda war could be seen in the paper's subtle wordsmithing, where editors even went so far as to change their headline from "WHO lauds Sweden as 'model' in coronavirus fight for resisting lockdown," to a slightly more incendiary "WHO lauds lockdown-ignoring Sweden as a 'model' for countries going forward".
To put things in even more perspective, while Sweden has already suffered 2,586 COVID deaths in 2020, back in 2018 there were approximately 6,997 total respiratory disease deaths in Sweden - and the country's healthcare capacity was not overrun, nor were any of their public systems stretched to breaking point.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2020/05/01/covid-why-sweden-has-already-won-the-debate-on-covid-19-lockdown-policy/
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