I was living in Sweden at the beginning of the pandemic. I suspected that I had COVID multiple times and tried to get a test. The response I got from the Swedish healthcare system was: “it doesn't matter what you are infected with, just stay home”.
Even though the author does have a point, they overlook the fact that it's been much harder to get COVID tests in Sweden than the countries it is compared to in the blog post. Are these numbers normalised with respect to the number of tests performed? What about the number of tests on symptomatic vs. asymptomatic people?
Sweden's lack of action against the pandemic was not limited to just the lack of closure and mask mandates and so on. As far as I know, they never set up a proper test and trace system (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure about this) as they did in Israel or the UK. Of course their case numbers will be smaller.
Even though the author does have a point, they overlook the fact that it's been much harder to get COVID tests in Sweden than the countries it is compared to in the blog post. Are these numbers normalised with respect to the number of tests performed? What about the number of tests on symptomatic vs. asymptomatic people?
Sweden's lack of action against the pandemic was not limited to just the lack of closure and mask mandates and so on. As far as I know, they never set up a proper test and trace system (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not sure about this) as they did in Israel or the UK. Of course their case numbers will be smaller.