Sweden is one of the most unionized countries in the world, and one of the things that has shocked me during the pandemic is how little protest there has been amongst, for example school teachers or health workers for the appalling position the Government has placed them in.
I've since been learning that... well, Swedish unions suck. They pretty much agreed not to complain in exchange for some rights years ago and have stuck to it. Now, they do little at a collectivist level, no matter what the abuses of employers or society.

organizing.work/2021/12/swedis…
Unions that essentially think it's wrong to confront, or complain.

The result? Sweden has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the world, and one of the fastest growing rates of income inequality.
One thing I have very clearly learned in Sweden in the past 20 years is that it's a paradise for bullies.

And they are truly shocked when they encounter an Australian who stands up to them. And believe me, I've had to do it a lot.
The pandemic has just been another example along the journey. Bullies who are used to getting their way and are shocked and upset when you challenge them, and respond by telling you to "watch your tone" and then have their sycophantic followers attack you as a pack.

Bring it on.

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Jan 26
Let's talk about herd immunity.

But first, lets talk about herds.

Here is a herd of cows. Image
But if you look closely, it's not a herd of cows. It's several herds of cows. I count at least 3, and perhaps 4 or even more. Image
So what makes these different herds? This thing along here - a fence. Image
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Jan 25
@Ingrid_Helander, the "science editor" for one of Sweden's leading newspapers, @SvD apparently "liked" a tweet calling New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adhern, "hysterical" (and not as in funny)
Well, Ingrid, here's how Sweden and New Zealand currently stand on various covid-19 metrics.

Total confirmed infections. Image
Total confirmed deaths. Image
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Jan 1
Let me tell you a little know pandemic fact that is completely contrary to something you've likely heard repeatedly during the pandemic.

🇸🇪 Sweden had what I believe to be the longest continuous lockdown in the world. 🇸🇪
Now "lockdown" isn't really officially defined. But Collins Dictionary, naming it as 2020 "word of the year" defined it this way -

"the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces"

bbc.com/news/uk-548789…
April 1 2020. The following "public advice" was released in Sweden -

"Persons over the age of 70 and those belonging to other risk groups should limit their physically close contact with others and completely avoid using public transport and other forms of transport.
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Dec 15, 2021
@pegobry Back in 2010 while awaiting the birth of my son, a friend warned me about my wife taking Vitamin C because it might trigger scurvy in the baby. She said her Doctor warned her about this when she was pregnant.

This made zero sense to me, so I started to dig in to it.
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@pegobry I actually found she was kind of right! ie That probably *is* what her Doctor told her, because I found it in some online medical textbooks! (Can't find it now)

I eventually tracked it down to a letter in a medical journal from a single doctor hypothesising it.
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@pegobry Digging again now I did find this reference to it. Just bizarre that Doctors even in 21st century textbooks were getting taught such obviously implausible rubbish.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Dec 15, 2021
If Sweden couldn't become even more of a parody - New Swedish research shows masks work! But media says ... it's important not wear them tight, or you can't breath and might faint.

I kid you not.
I was wrong! It's even MORE a parody! The scientists involved are talking about how masks work - if you cough in them!

And the interviewer - "so this is the first big study to how that masks might have a little bit of an effect"

As they all sit chatting around a desk. Unmasked.
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Oct 28, 2021
Swedish Chief Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has today publicly claimed the majority of Covid deaths in Sweden were in fact not caused by Covid.

Sweden has two registries of Covid deaths. One is from @Folkhalsomynd and records if a person died within 30 days of a positive test.
This will overcount by including people who died from other causes unrelated to Covid, but will undercount by missing those who die outside the 30 day window.

This is the data reported internationally.

The second registry is actually the official one, from @socialstyrelsen
This count is based on death certificates and the officially recorded cause of death as determined by a doctor.

This will likely undercount, especially early in the pandemic, when doctors were unfamiliar with the disease.
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