When you hear the word Europe, the most recent images you get from social media and elsewhere is harrowing to say the least.
Most of what we would accept as a supplicant image to the said article entails body-bags lying in heaps on a vacant soccer field, or an empty street where once songs were heard and people were dancing.
Obviously, this is what you will not get when you go to Sweden right now. Out of most European nations, Sweden is business as usual. Restaurants and bars are pretty much well into operation, playgrounds and schools are well under way into its happy spring semester. Virtually it’s normalcy, as if nothing ever happened within the Swedish border.
The President of the United States have clearly drawn the line between the two nations, pointing out that the Swedish measure was, in fact, very Swedish of them.
“Sweden did that, the herd, they call it the herd. Sweden’s suffering very, very badly,”
However, despite deep concerns throughout the European and the general scientific committee, the Swedes and their bureaucracy is confident that their “herd immunity” policy will work for the best. To use the words of the Foreign Minister of the Swedish state, Ann Linde, President Trump is obviously factually misgiven, and that the herd immunity conspiracy, and categorically ill-imposed.
“No lockdown, and we rely very much on people taking responsibility themselves.”
Anders Tegnell, the top scientist in Sweden, backfired on Trump’s criticism calling them blatantly, factually unhinged. “Sweden is doing okay. It’s producing quality results the same way it’s always done. So far Swedish health care is handling this pandemic in a fantastic way.”
However, the numbers may draw a seemingly contrary figure to the impression that they are trying to imbue, as official stats from the Johns Hopkins University shows 9,141 cases of the Covid-19 virus and 793 deaths.
Tegnell has fervently defended his nation’s stance, stressing that: “We know that closing down schools has a lot of effects on health care because a lot of people can’t go to their work anymore. A lot of children are suffering when they can’t go to school.”
The so-called individual responsibility that the bureaucrats heavily depend on seems to be working among normal citizens, as reports show less people on public transit during the week of social distancing recommendation. However, some even reported a general gathering for Easter parties across the nation.
The WHO also does not approve of the Swedish policy intake, as it views its general surge on the infected numbers as being a harbinger of what’s to come. : “Only an ‘all of society’ approach will work to prevent escalation and turn this situation around,” mentioned a WHO personnel.
Officials have warned that next month will be crucial in the Swedish effort of collateral civil liberty and public hygiene, and to see whether the Nordic nation’s approach would really work after all.
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