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1. Professor Lundkvist had just completed a covid antibody test kit study. The results showed the kit was very reliable!
Meanwhile #Swedish FHM were claiming Sweden was close to “Herd Immunity”
Lundkvist asked if friends&colleagues wanted to volunteer & test themselves.
Meanwhile #Swedish FHM were claiming Sweden was close to “Herd Immunity”
Lundkvist asked if friends&colleagues wanted to volunteer & test themselves.
2.Your friends are desperate to test! Nobody in Sweden is allowed to get tested in April 2020 unless hospitalised. So they think you’re a saint. Instead of wasting 450 tests they are put to good use. Everyone gets a direct answer.
No personal data is saved
Surprisingly few +he’s
No personal data is saved
Surprisingly few +he’s
3) When he see that only 7% of the results are positive, Lundkvist understands that FHM’s data is wrong.
FHM claim we soon have herd Immunity but actually they haven’t tested the population.
#FHM is running blind! Their policy causes mass Infections & FHM claim it’s soon over
FHM claim we soon have herd Immunity but actually they haven’t tested the population.
#FHM is running blind! Their policy causes mass Infections & FHM claim it’s soon over
(Thread) Indians protecting Swedes on #Swedengate . Indians promoting Ikea stores opening is a cause for great concern. If Indians are truly interested in being a green and sustainable community, education is key. It is very important for the communities inside India to know that
Ikea's claims of being a sustainable company are highly controversial.
1. Their actions do not meet their marketing jargon.
2. Before visiting the new store, understanding the Gruen effect of #consumerism will show you how you always end up buying what you do not want .
1. Their actions do not meet their marketing jargon.
2. Before visiting the new store, understanding the Gruen effect of #consumerism will show you how you always end up buying what you do not want .
3. It is important to be mindful of how just like McDonalds is bad for physical health, Ikea is the McDonald of furniture world.
4. The brand’s website repeatedly says “zero waste”, but you will see the amount of unnecessary packaging they still use if you buy from #IKEAIndia.
4. The brand’s website repeatedly says “zero waste”, but you will see the amount of unnecessary packaging they still use if you buy from #IKEAIndia.
Swedes accept spontaeneous invites to eat but never invite spontaeneously. WHY NOT? Because Swedes, Swiss, Finns, Germans are poor at heart despite all that wealth. #Swedengate
If the excuse these nations give that hospitality was the duty of people with higher status, then why do they accept invites in refugee homes for eating their exotic food, because refugees are people with lower status
The Swedish excuse for making the child from the other family wait while they they is that kid may have plans for another kind of dinner, and you wouldn’t want to ruin the routine or preparations. But when the Swedish kid visits a foreign culture family, all these do not apply!
@lovettejallow Your talk on #Swedengate could well be Swissgate and Finngate. What is unfathomable is how Swedes, Swiss, FInns, germans happily gorge on immigrant dining tables, without every returning the generosity. And then publish their welcoming generosity to refugees !
If dinnertime is sacred, how come they can eat at immigrant homes but they will make kids wait while they eat. If dinnertime is sacred, how come sharing is not caring? Why the double standards?
How come they never care to learn from other cultures who know how to stretch food but won't see the error of their stubbon ways . Why do these northern europeans keep lying to themselves by justifying their stinginess? It is due to fear of poverty. Scarcity based histories.
A thread on #Swedengate from a white Swede who is surprised that ppl are surprised there's racism in Sweden.
1/12 Of course there's racism in Sweden! At what point did people think that the US held the monopoly on racism?
1/12 Of course there's racism in Sweden! At what point did people think that the US held the monopoly on racism?
2/12 The fact that Sweden is progressive (compared to the US which isn't saying much y'all, come on) doesn't mean it's not racist, sexist, capitalist, imperialist.
It is a nation-state.
And all nation-states are built by defining their ppl & thereby defining who does NOT belong.
It is a nation-state.
And all nation-states are built by defining their ppl & thereby defining who does NOT belong.
3/12 In Sweden this meant early on defining the Indigenous of the far north, the Sami, as others, and not welcome in the nation-state of Sweden unless they assimilated, basically unless they killed their identity.
swedes don’t feed the kids or their dates apparently what is happening in that country #Swedengate
why are they being stingy with the meatballs
the UN needs to impose sanctions expeditiously
On #swedengate, when I was about seven I had lunch at my friend's house and my grandma called her parents and tried to pay for it
This was probably a bowl of macaroni with ketchup on it we're talking about here. Not filet mignon.
Maybe the take is: we don't share our food because we know it's so bad that we don't want to inflict it on our guests?
🔴 VOICES | I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"I was laughing when I checked Twitter and saw that #Swedengate was trending.
All this fuss because of the revelation that Swedish people don’t – as a rule – serve food to guests (particularly to other children who are playing at their houses)."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
All this fuss because of the revelation that Swedish people don’t – as a rule – serve food to guests (particularly to other children who are playing at their houses)."
independent.co.uk/voices/swedeng…
"As a child growing up in Gothenburg, I remember not really caring at all that I wasn’t being fed – I just continued playing and had a nice, quiet time while the other family had their dinner. It was usually just a quick “pause”."
I’ve been seeing #Swedengate and have enjoyed that it’s allowed others to share — and the info be received — that Sweden (as other Nordic European countries) have racist colonial histories that persist.
I saw a response saying: “we give billions in aid to poor countries”
and…
I saw a response saying: “we give billions in aid to poor countries”
and…
“What happens in aid is similar to what happens in military expenditure. When the govt. spends on national defense, most of the money stays in the [country] to pay wages and purchase equipment, supplies, and services; in this way the defense budget helps stimulate the economy…”
“[the] foreign aid budget is not a loss, but rather a contribution to the domestic economy”
— still from Carty; and relevant to note here because it’s really tiring to hear European + Anglo-settler state citizens bemoan, or uplift, their aid contributions to the less fortunate
— still from Carty; and relevant to note here because it’s really tiring to hear European + Anglo-settler state citizens bemoan, or uplift, their aid contributions to the less fortunate
