JRPGfan said:
Number of daily cases start climbing early june in Sweden.
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I think they started testing a lot more, they are only now implementing the main strategy that WHO recommended in March, which is to trace the infections and find who spreads it and how. The Swedish death toll is climbing and the only countries ahead in deaths per capita are nations that were considered disasters and even epicenters of the early pandemic, two microstates, and one country with a 10% bigger population on roughly 1/15 of the geographical area. It's a disaster, to put it mildly. Swedish media and politicians are busy engaging in one out of two strategies right now; one being shifting focus over on privatization and how it's to blame for the whole crisis (despite this being provably false) and the other being standing in a circle and pointing fingers at one another, regions, municipalities, the government, and the health authorities are all effectively blaming one another. If all else fails; blame the population for not following guidelines that were obtuse and anemic to begin with. And there are so many other bits and pieces that just blows the mind.
About infection rates, I'd say I agree with you, but this is another point where authorities have had zero inklings as to the actual state of things. In April, they stated that by May the 1st, at the very least 25% of Stockholm would carry antibodies. The antibody tests that came in during the last few days of April showed a mere 7.5 % or thereabouts. Authorities then complained that these were probably imprecise and too dated, and they would order a new batch of tests, these would for sure show numbers well above 25%. The mathematician who devised the algorithm they used clearly stated that they were probably way off in their base numbers (contrary to the authorities' position). The insufferable prof. Johan Gisecke has jumped between anything from 25 to 60% immunity in Stockholm before summer. When confronted with this flip-flopping, he merely stated: "we'll let that slide", and to make matters worse, it turned out that his "independent" advice and opinions in both domestic and international interviews were actually paid for by the health authorities.
The new batch of antibody tests arrived in early-mid June, and showed that about 17.5 % of the population in Stockholm carried antibodies, the majority of which work in sectors and positions that expose them more often, or simply people who had likely experienced mild symptoms at some point and thus were more likely to get tested.
Honestly, I'm shocked at how badly handled this is here in Sweden. No one is taking responsibility, measures have been taken to cover up the number of deaths or infections in certain areas, bogus confidentiality claims have been clamped on documents and correspondence to make it harder for the media to get to the bottom of things and people are pretending that well-known factors speaking against their "strategy" of choice doomed it from the beginning were somehow shocking reveals in hindsight clarity (chiefly the lackluster situation in retirement facilities and care centers for elderly and their woeful lack of protective gear all over the country). Goddamn. And still, they insist that it's all down to the entire world "not understanding" the situation or "having the wrong image" and not actual incompetence on their part.
