Get Rid of Failed Leaders, Publicly
The article looked fishy when I started reading it and I knew something was wrong when I came to the point where it claimed that both Norway and Sweden had the same level of immigration.<p>In 2016 Sweden had around 160 000 asylum seekers, and granted around 70 000.<p>Norway with half the population had 31k asylum seekers, through I don&#x27;t know the grant rate. In 2017 Norway had reduced those numbers further down to around 3k asylum seekers, while Sweden had 150k.<p>Similar immigration levels? No. Not even close.<p>If those numbers are that wrong then I don&#x27;t trust any other numbers in this article. The connection to covid is also dubious and I have yet to see any such arguments being done in the news. No one is claiming that immigration is the reason why vaccination took until this summer to be made available to the general population, nor why the elder care took the primary hit during the first year. What people are claiming is that most of the lock down strategies of other nations has lite evidence that they worked to protect the elder care system.<p>A bit of a telling sign is that between Malmö and Copenhagen which is only separated by a bridge, the Swedish side had lower infection rate and deaths compared to the danish side with the stricter lock downs. Malmö however has a younger population and lower population density. Comparing areas of similar density and the levels are more or less identical between Denmark and Sweden, with Stockholm sticking out a bit. A conclusion one could draw is that stricter lock downs might be beneficial in areas of high density near elderly care facilities, with fast diminishing benefits the further you step out of those areas. Future research studies will likely find that out during the next decade, and it will be interesting to see what Sweden should have done in hindsight.