Thread by @MediaWatchSwe

At 6.00pm CET, #Norway faces an almost complete shutdown in Bergen, Kvarn and Ulvik after 16 cases of the mutated virus were detected. The leader(s) of 🇳🇴 @erna_solberg, 🇫🇮 @MarinSanna 🇩🇰 @Statsmin and who can forget the formidable 🇳🇿 @jacindaardern have taken strategic, bold

and compassionate decisions to protect their populations. In #Sweden on the other hand, the state epidemiologist #AndersTegnell gives the green light for people to travel to ski resorts in 🇸🇪 over the upcoming annual holiday of "Sportslov".100,000+ #Swedes travelled

to the Alps in Spring 2020. Thanks to #AndersTegnell`s policies only a fraction were tested, and there was no tracing or quarantine. Almost one year on, the science around C19 has blossomed. Most unknowns are known and within one year several vaccines have become available.

But in #Sweden there is complete adversity to irrefutable scientific evidence.
How can @SwedishPM @lenahallengren put their trust in two men @AndersTegnell and the head of @Folkhalsomynd, @CarlsonJFoHM who have made fatal mistakes over and over again?
How can #Tegnell whose

mistakes have cost thousands of lives be given the keys to the kingdom, when there are so many experts and specialists who have the knowledge and do not rely on theories, assumptions, and pseudo-science? The complicity of a weak state and the power of negligent state institutions

are fueling this disaster. The evidence is mounting that herd-immunity was always the goal of the Swedish Public Health Authority and politicians are now coming out and stating that allowing the virus to spread was very much on the agenda of the Gov.

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