So did you magically draw this chart on your own..... or do you have a legitimate source to back it up. And by legitimate -- we don't mean the blog of a COVID-denier.
In the Coronavirus Fight in Scandinavia, Sweden Stands Apart
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So did you magically draw this chart on your own..... or do you have a legitimate source to back it up. And by legitimate -- we don't mean the blog of a COVID-denier.
As Nick yourself. He’s been 100% correct on the futility of lockdowns since the beginning. He studies the data and stats of the non-pandemic ... rather than self stimulating to the panic porn deployed by the MSM.
You were wrong, AGAIN.
So you can’t provide a legitimate source for your chart. And you are merely pushing nonsense again.
Some countries in the world are starting to ease their restrictions while most are placing more restrictions involving travel (in/out)...of the country.
I think Sweden will follow the same path as placing more restrictions involving travel prior to doing a lockdown.
Yet, they obviously aren't listening to Covidiots outside of Sweden and have been paying more attention to the data from their health officials and government policies.
Now they are pretty much doing what other countries are doing...trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible by the fall prior to the next Flu season and major holidays.
- Yet, had they just followed the Pandemic policies as New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea...
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Sweden’s ski resorts want to stay open despite rising coronavirus infections
With the half-term holiday approaching, officials are worried, but hotels say they offer much-needed, safe outdoor activities.
By Charlie Duxbury
February 20, 2021 4:00 am
STÖTEN, Sweden — Welcome the last bastion of Sweden’s lockdown resistance: its ski resorts.
On a recent weekday in Stöten, a small resort close to the Norwegian border, skiers and snowboarders raced through thick powder dumped by a recent storm.
Early morning temperatures of minus 28 degrees Celsius proved no barrier for tourists keen for some fun after months of increasing pandemic-related restrictions.
“It’s just great to breathe the mountain air,” one tourist told her companion as she made for one of Stöten’s chair lifts.
But clouds are gathering over Sweden’s winter wonderlands.
In the capital Stockholm, a third coronavirus wave is looming, and Health Minister Lena Hallengren on Wednesday announced that the government wants to expand its lockdown powers to take in a wider range of private businesses — including sports facilities — as well public spaces where crowding might occur.
“There remains a need to take further measures to limit the spread of infection,” Hallengren told a news conference. “It may be necessary to shut down parts of Swedish society.”
Sweden famously left its borders, schools and businesses open as much of Europe locked down last spring.
Since then, Sweden’s death rate from COVID-19 has hovered around the European average but has been much higher than in neighboring Norway and Finland, which imposed stiffer restrictions early on.
Despite growing criticism, chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell has continued to defend his country’s stance, claiming its lighter touch has been as effective as lockdown in slowing the spread of the virus while doing less damage to people’s overall well-being.
However, a harsh second wave late last year prompted the Swedish government to reverse course and it began shutting many public spaces, from museums to swimming pools. On January 8, a new law was approved granting the government the power to also shut privately owned shopping centers.
“We have to look at things case by case and identify where the threat is coming from,” Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said then.
Sweden’s ski resorts became a hotbed of infection last March as half-term holidaymakers packed bars and restaurants and partied long into the winter night.
By Easter, the situation was so bad that the Public Health Agency leaned on tour operators to shut down resorts, which they did voluntarily, in a rare early example of a Swedish lockdown-like action.
Ahead of this year’s ski season, a fresh debate flared as critics of the government’s hands-off approach rounded on the ski resort operators, saying they should keep their lifts still.
But commitments by the operators to shut a range of communal areas within the resorts — like swimming pools and saunas — and restrict access to restaurants and shops, paved the way for a reopening.
Companies running ski resorts have said they should be allowed to stay open as they offer much-needed healthy outdoor activities where participants can remain spread out.
“I feel very secure about all the measures we have taken to make sure things are safe,” said Stefan Sjöstrand, CEO of Skistar, which runs one of Sweden’s biggest resorts in the village of Sälen, about 40 kilometers east of Stöten. “We are open and we plan to stay open,” he told public service radio this week.
The busy New Year holidays passed without a noticeable spike in infections in Sälen, but rates are now rising there — as they are elsewhere across the country in what is rapidly becoming a third wave.
On Wednesday, the head of Stockholm’s health services, Björn Eriksson, said the number of new cases in the capital had risen by 24 percent in just a week.
“I’m very concerned,” he told reporters. “If you have to travel, make sure you do it in a safe way.”
With Stockholm’s half-term holiday due to start March 1, health officials along the main routes to the mountains, and in the mountain villages themselves, are getting edgy.
They say tourists don’t always adhere to social-distancing rules en route, or at their destinations.
“People seem to be relaxing and believing that we can celebrate half-term like normal,” Anna Skogstam, a doctor working with infection control in the county of Värmland, told national daily Aftonbladet.
At a press briefing on Thursday, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven sought to drive home the current national guidance and warn further restrictions will come if necessary.
“We are ready to make the decisions which the infection situation demands, and that could be shutdowns or allowing municipalities to restrict access to certain places: Health and people’s lives come first,” Löfven said.
In Stöten, the swimming pool has been shut, ski schools groups reduced, and the owners of the grocery store asked people to shop alone.
But signs posted around the resort still offer visitors a warm welcome, albeit with caveats.
“Remember to keep a ski-pole’s length apart,” the signs said.
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Nick is a very legitimate actuary. He runs PANDA, a reputable consultancy that focuses on pandemic data. He doesn’t post panic porn that has been DEAD WRONG for over a year. He just posts the facts. Which are inconvenient when you are preaching fear.
So... he is a blogger that pushes complete nonsense. Obviously the nonsense is so bad you won't even provide a link to this blog.
I would rather use the data and articles from the Swedish government and Swedish health officials about what's happening in Sweden.
Heck...even a data / statistics / chart from Ourworldindata.org that gets its data from the Swedish health officials would be just as equal.
Seriously, I hope the Covidiot isn't getting his data from a blogger. I myself am in close contact with a Swedish family in Stockholm...they don't blog but I would trust what they say against a blogger considering they have info about two things critically important to me...
Ski Resorts because they are hardcore skiers and retirement places near the ski resorts.
Simply, when Swedish families feel their government didn't protect the elderly, ethnic communities and those with underlying medical conditions and now wishing they had done something like New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan or South Korea...
There's a problem although I do feel the Swedish people are just at fault for excepting the doomed natural herd immunity experiment...something that was based upon flawed info in thinking they could protect the elderly, ethnic communities and other high risk groups.
That's old news now...they needs to do something (maybe more targeted restrictions) to get their numbers declining again unless they're content on waiting until most of their population are vaccinated...
Good luck with that considering there's a growing number of anti-vaxxers in Sweden.
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James Melville is an anti lock down pussy/clown pushing bunk science in chart form