forest-spirit said:
It's because certain people listen to alternative "experts" with insanely naive and optimistic predictions, based on limited data and low-accuracy models. If you listen to what the departments say, what the officials say, what our prime-minister says, you get a picture that's more realistic. For example, when the representative from the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs talked about how almost 30% of people in Stockholm may have been infected by 1 May, he didn't ramble about how Stockholm would reach herd immunity by the the of the month, like the idiot Johan Giesecke did. Instead he stressed that 30% infected meant that 70% of the population still could get infected, and that it by no means meant that we were getting close to "winning" or whatever. |
Didn't they use a completely faulty model for their calculations as well? The blood samples and the simple extrapolation to reach an approximation of how many were potentially infected. The blood sample study was tossed due to its inaccuracy but the authorities and many independent experts cling to the models derived from it. Overall, there's been complete confusion regarding infection rates, capacity for testing, and fatalities since the beginning. Not to mention the contradictive measures and statements made by different layers of state (for instance, while the government pressed for staying at home, the city of Stockholm allowed restaurants and bars to open their outdoor service earlier to draw more customers and patrons). Like almost all matters in Sweden, the discussion has folded in on itself and become more about the rules and regulations of the discussion itself rather than the actual issues at hand, and no one is willing to accept any kind of responsibility or take proper charge. It has become yet another either-or scenario where you stand 100% behind authorities like some USSR PR spokesman, with no dissent allowed, or outright stupidity on the other end where you blame anyone and everyone and demand answers or retribution from where it shouldn't or can't come (for instance, the belief that the head epidemiologist is somehow his own branch of government as a person). It has been a complete disaster, and it keeps going.
