Thread by @VirpiFlyg

Sweden trying to stop other countries from taking measures against COVID-19. Thread.

Finland. Sweden 'tried to stop Finland from closing the schools', wanted Finnish society to work as normally as possible and was worried about Finland cutting off Helsinki region.

- In Swedish (machine-translatable): hbl.fi/artikel/sitra-…
- In English: helsinkitimes.fi/finland/news-i…

Norway.
Giesecke (SWE): Like I've told you many times, Norway is doing it wrong.

Forland (NO): He has been on the first page of the Norwegian newspapers again and again, saying Norway's doing wrong and Sweden is doing right.
- thelocal.no/20200520/inter…
- expressen.se/nyheter/qs/mej…

Ireland. They turned down Giesecke's suggestion of infecting everyone under 60. irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4005…

United Kingdom. Boris Johnson took advice from Anders Tegnell with sad consequences. businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

In April, Tegnell tried to persuade ECDC from recommending masks with this incoherent letter (yes, it's authentic) but failed.

You can continue the thread with more examples.

#Schools around the world.

#Sweden: Despite open schools, children didn't get sick or spread the virus.

Also Sweden (Tegnell in a press conference now in January, via @IvaWest_SE, machine-translated): In spring, we basically tested no children at all.

The latter is true.

What about #Denmark? If Norway was getting emails about 'doing it wrong' and Finland was pressured to keep the society open, didn't Denmark experience Swedish lobbying, too? I haven't heard anything about it, except for ministers complaining about the closed border.

Johan Giesecke (Sweden's former state epidemiologist, worked for the Public Health Agency in spring) kept contact with Finland's state epidemiologist.

- So you're saying the state epidemiologist of Finland is coming around to your point of view?
- Yes.

https://twitter.com/VirpiFlyg/status/1349863681652350977

"In July, according to a report in Politico, White House advisors promoting herd immunity referenced a June study by Sweden’s pandemic modeler, Tom Britton, which said that herd immunity could occur after just 43 percent of a population became infected."

foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22/swe…