Thread by @DrEricDing

DEVASTATING—The Swedish🇸🇪 government, “deliberately tried to use children to spread COVID-19 and denied care to seniors and those suffering from other conditions”. ➡️ That’s the infamously dystopian & morally bankrupt “Swedish Model”.

HT @DavidSteadson
latimes.com/business/story…

2) the study paints a devastating picture of Swedish policies and their effect. “The Swedish response to this pandemic was unique and characterized by a morally, ethically, and scientifically questionable laissez-faire approach.” nature.com/articles/s4159…

3) The government’s goal appeared geared to produce herd immunity — a level of infection that would create a natural barrier to the pandemic’s spread **without inconveniencing middle- and upper-class citizens**.

4) the government never set forth that goal publicly, but internal government emails unearthed by the Swedish press revealed that herd immunity was the strategy behind closed doors. svd.se/a/bnnqk3/mejle…

5) Explicit or not, the effort failed. “Projected ‘natural herd-immunity’ levels are still nowhere in sight,” the researchers wrote, adding that herd immunity “does not seem within reach without widespread vaccinations” and “may be unlikely” under any circumstances.

6) That’s a reproach to the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely criticized white paper endorsing the quest for herd immunity and co-written by Martin Kulldorf, a Sweden-born professor who has explicitly defended his native country’s policies.

7) The country’s treatment of the elderly and patients with co-morbidities such as obesity was especially appalling.

“Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives,” the researchers wrote.

8) “Potentially life-saving treatment was withheld without medical examination, and without informing the patient or his/her family or asking permission.”

Ummm, WTF?! 😦

9) “In densely populated Stockholm, triage rules stated that patients with co-morbidities were not to be admitted to intensive care units, on grounds that they were “unlikely to recover,” the researchers wrote.

My god that is so messed up.

10) mass infection of kids is also wholly stupid and dangerous… kids do get severe disease and not a low amount either. Also Omicron and #BA2 affects kids more than the old strain upon which these numbers below are based.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1509550929670025220

11) I have a sinking feeling that UK is going the same way of Sweden’s dystopian morally bankrupt model to the pandemic. Hospitalizations have now hit a new daily peak that is higher than the last Omicron wave in England! 👇

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1509524740364509184

12) And now in the Us, pediatric hospitalizations have rebounded as well. The fact that we throwing our unvaccinated youngest kids under the bus is disgusting. Yet here we are… courtesy Tegnell’s morally bankrupt Swedish Model

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1509746123287801878