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With 86% of people over 12 vaccinated at least once and Omicron having milder symptoms than previous strains, Sweden's Public Health Agency is lifting almost all pandemic measures, while recommending the government to reclassify covid-19 as no longer an illness presenting a danger to society.
www.thelocal.se/20220203/breakβ¦
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@jec So many people in Sweden had covid already and the people most sensitive to it died off early 2020, so they figure it's not gonna get any worse now, might as well open up.
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@clacke Seems a bit premature, no?
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In the covid case I think it has less to do with the capitalist analysis, but it does have some influence, and more to do with the initial pandemic analysis of "let's not be hasty, let's be reasonable" coupled with an adherence to constitutional principles and tradition that forced Sweden to have a "strong recommendations" lockdown rather than a "martial law" lockdown.
There was no point at which Sweden could have switched to "all right, that's it, everybody go home now if you can at all, and for heaven's sake put on a mask if you need to go out" without losing face over initial decisions.
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It is both aggressively capitalistic and aggressively anticapitalistic at the same time. As a Swede my personal opinion has been on a pendulum between the two sides in the last four decades. Ten years ago I was drawn toward ancap and today drawn toward ancom, but always with a moderating influence of social liberal democrat behind.
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@clacke How aggressively capitalistic is Sweden?
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