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Sweden Is A Delusional Failure. Sweden is worse than 97% of the world.

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used to respect Sweden as a decent country. Not anymore. Sweden’s 
coronavirus response has been so tragically, obstinately wrong that its 
reputation will never recover. What’s the Swedish Model now? A Volvo that 
self-drives off a cliff? IKEA furniture that kills your grandmother?

Worst of all, Sweden is delusional. They think they’re doing great, and 
they want to talk about it. They insist on inflicting their stupidity upon 
the world. As much as the equally delusional Germans, they think that the 
world still looks up to them, and take up Op-Ed space to tell us so.
Let me be clear, there are real global leaders against COVID-19. Countries 
have reduced COVID-19 to zero or a few deaths. Those leaders just aren’t 
white, and they're definitely not Sweden.
Sweden Is Worse Than 97% Of The World

Sweden compared to countries that don’t actively kill people
We’re only having this conversation because systemic racism grades white 
people on a curve. Right now, not drinking bleach is the height of western 
civilization right now. If you can do that you’re a white hero. However, 
the rest of civilization A) exists and B) is not so stupid.

On the chart above you can see Sweden’s per capita deaths against some 
other countries. I’ve picked a few countries that have done well, but you 
can pick non-Western countries at random. Sweden’s idiocy breaks the 
scale.

Vietnam has zero deaths. Mongolia has zero deaths (and zero local 
transmissions). Taiwan has seven. Korea has 263. China suppressed a whole-
ass epidemic down to zero. Trinidad & Tobago have done better, as has 
every country in Africa.

Don’t be Sweden
You can pick a country at random and have a 97% chance of finding 
someplace better than Sweden. Only the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, and 
Spain have worse death tolls, and you don’t see anyone trying to follow 
them. Even worst-place America is looking at the per-capita death toll in 
Sweden and saying ‘whoa, that’s rough’.

What America has done through sheer idiocy, Sweden has done through 
obstinancy and pride. It’s hard to say which is worse. To the dead, it’s 
all the same.

And they don’t get it. Many Swedish scientists and citizens are 
protesting, but a lot of the population seems to support the fiery Volvo 
model. They’re like,
“The sound system is so good, it never gets interrupted by squealing 
brakes.”
Swedes: This Is Fine

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I recently read something called ‘I Live in Sweden. I’m Not Panicking.’ A 
better title would be ‘This Is Fine’.
In this, Maud Cordenius — who had the ability to work from home — 
bloodlessly observed the deaths of those that could not.

“We know that the elder-care system has been struggling for years. Older 
people living in nursing homes or at home are often looked after by 
temporary workers who have little or no training. Prime Minister Stefan 
Lofven said that the pandemic has shed a light on that fact.”

I’m sorry, but WTF is wrong with these people? Some privileged woman is 
duly noting mass death because she doesn’t want her preschool schedule 
interrupted?

And It Didn’t Even Work
And for what? For the economy? That plan didn’t even work. As you’ll see, 
it couldn’t work. Swedes just ended up drinking longer than their 
neighbors and having their economy crash just the same.

Sweden’s economy is 89% dependent on exports. Keeping shops and 
restaurants open was a marginal gain, and even that quickly dried up, 
because the plague. They would have known that. Economically, their policy 
was a fart in the wind. Now they’re forecast to go into recession anyways, 
just like their neighbors who did not kill people as actively.

Sweden compared to its neighbors which less actively killed people
In the end, all Sweden did was drink and produce a trickle of economic 
activity while thousands of people (and their own reputation) died. What a 
cruel and pointless waste of life. What a sad end for competent Sweden. 
How many people had to die gasping for air so that a few could enjoy the 
music on the Titanic a bit longer?

Sweden was known for its social safety net, but now it’s surrounded by 
dead bodies that fell right through. It’s more than an embarrassment, it’s 
a shame, it’s a crime. Swedes are fond of saying ‘time will tell’ but it 
has already told. Those people are permanently dead. The old idea of a 
compassionate Sweden is gone.

The Swedish Model Is The Worst

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Right now Sweden is the worst, and they’re insufferable about it. Not only 
are they damaging themselves, they’re spreading toxic ideas like 
infuriating furniture. They want the rest of the world to assemble their 
stupid model which just kills people.

The new Swedish Model is an IKEA cabinet that crushes old people while 
shining a light on them. It’s a self-driving car that drives straight into 
migrant communities and keeps going. This is no model at all. It’s just a 
failure of public health, and of public decency. Sweden might have been 
admirable once — in the long-ago age of a few months ago — but that’s over 
now.
If you want global leadership, throw a dart at a map. Avoid the Swedish 
Model like, well, the plague.

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