Excess mortality at Swedish elder care facilities has now been traced to cost cutting measures where care has been privatized. Formerly care was provided by salaried, highly trained experts. Today it's provided by low skill, low hourly pay workers that work at multiple locations.
Market fundamentalism is dumb as bricks..... As a society becomes wealthier and the standard of living rises, a growing portion of socioeconomic activity should not be managed for profit but in support of productivity at the gradually shrinking technological frontier.
Let's turn our elders into profits for a hedge fund that buys up long term care facilities and stashes the money in Luxemburg to avoid paying taxes in Sweden. Here's a prediction. The Swedish peasant class was never subjugated by the elite for a reason; there will be hell to pay.
Don't even talk to me about the human sacrifice that is underway at American elder care fascilitates. Only at the very top end of the most expensive care homes do our elders have a decent chance of surviving Covid19.
