Reading between the lines about the below story...
Anders Tegnell was in fact guiding Sweden to
Natural Herd Immunity as confirmed by his email communication with other health individuals in other countries although he has recently been denying publicly that such was not the goal.
Just the same, the White House of the United States was in fact doing the same. This would explain the reason
why publicly the
Trump / Pence administration plus
Scott Atlas were downplaying the threat of Covid...resulting in Covid spreading so fast and deep into so many states...so many infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
- The White House then panic...the government did a lockdown.
In my opinion, that's criminal because it didn't allow the countries to properly prepare the protect the vulnerable and ethnic communities.
- People should be arrested in the government of Sweden and the United States for intentionally having a public health policy that wanted people to die through Natural Herd Immunity and then tried to cover-up what they were doing.
The fact that Anders Tegnell was communicating with other countries in private (secrecy)...I wouldn't be surprise that he was also in communication with Scott Atlas and the Trump / Pence administration.
- It would also explain why the United States allowed their borders to be open for almost another month to Europe plane travelers but using the closure of their border to China as an illusion that they were on top of Covid when in fact they really wanted it to spread instead of damaging the economy.
These corrupt assholes wanted a large part of their countries population to be killed (its murder in my opinion) for some bullshit
Natural Herd Immunity policy that every computer research model in the world would result in
millions of deaths in each country via such a policy.
Today, +1 million people saw their grandparents killed by Covid with the help / support by these corrupt individuals that I view as murderers and its another reason why countries
can not protect their vulnerable when you have people like this controlling public health policies.
Their goal was not to protect...it was to
infect.
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The Inside Story of How Sweden Botched Its Coronavirus Response
Stockholm denies pursuing herd immunity. But internal emails show Swedish officials were resigned to mass infections all along.
By
Kelly Bjorklund December 22, 2020, 4:29 PM
A sign instructing people to wash their hands—featuring a portrait of chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the face of Sweden’s response to the pandemic—hangs at an entrance to a restaurant in Stockholm on May 10.
One month after declaring the coronavirus a “socially dangerous” disease in February, the Swedish Public Health Agency essentially threw up its hands and chose to seek herd immunity rather than take serious steps to mitigate the virus’s spread, confidential internal documents show. That fateful—and fatalistic—early decision shaped Sweden’s entire response to the pandemic, from a refusal to mandate masks to a haphazard testing regime.
Sweden’s botched coronavirus response is no longer news: Even the country’s king, Carl XVI Gustaf, admitted in his annual Christmas
address that the Swedish government had “failed.” But private emails seen by
Foreign Policy, some of which have been previously reported in the
Swedish press, reveal that Sweden’s health authorities were resigned to mass infections—so called herd immunity—all along, and no matter the costs.
Throughout the pandemic, Sweden’s health authorities have said one thing publicly and something different in private about nearly every aspect of their management of the crisis. There were repeated
public denials from the government that it deliberately sought to achieve herd immunity, even though that was the strategy pursued behind closed doors. There were misleading statements on the availability of testing. There was even continued public denial (despite private acknowledgement) of how the virus spreads, part of a pattern of apparent official obfuscation that’s lasted the whole pandemic.
And the result has been deadly. While countries such as the United States, Brazil, and India have made headlines for recording the highest number of coronavirus-related fatalities, Sweden’s
death rate of over 80 per 100,000 people is among Europe’s highest and is around 10 times as great as those of Norway and Finland, and over four times Denmark’s. COVID-19
hospitalizations are now rising faster there than in most European countries, and Sweden is caring for more patients in hospital
now than it did at the height of its first wave. By Dec. 21, Sweden had
surpassed the United States and all major European countries in its daily confirmed cases per million. Things have gotten so out of control in Sweden that neighboring Norway, for the first time since World War II, put troops on the
border to prevent Swedes from crossing over.
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nov. 19 report concluded that Sweden fared worst among 35 European countries in multiple coronavirus management metrics including lowering the spread of infection, reducing people’s mobility, and discharging patients from intensive care units.
Sweden’s true handling of the pandemic matters, and not just because of how it has impacted its population of just over 10 million. Around much of Europe, and especially in the United States, Sweden’s hands-off approach to a deadly pandemic was, for some, a model to emulate. U.S. President Donald Trump’s coronavirus advisor
Scott Atlas, for example, publicly hailed Sweden’s approach as a
model, even as its catastrophic performance—especially when compared to its neighbors—becomes ever clearer.
A medical staffer at Sophiahemmet private hospital talks on a phone inside a tent for testing and receiving potential COVID-19 patients in Stockholm on April 7. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images
When the Swedish government categorized COVID-19 as a socially dangerous disease on Feb. 2, Peet Tull was sitting on a lonely farm on the Swedish island of Gotland, watching developments with concern. Tull was one of the people who built up the country’s infection control unit: He had been Public Health Agency Director Johan Carlson’s boss and also given assignments to Anders Tegnell, the agency’s chief epidemiologist, whom he knows well. Another thing Tull knows well is the
Infection Control Act, because he participated in drafting it—and he wondered why Sweden hadn’t implemented a contact-tracing system or put travelers from international COVID-19 hot spots in quarantine.
As he observed global coronavirus cases surge, Tull wrote an email to Tegnell on March 15, proposing three possible options to deal with the pandemic. Option one, he said, would be to “stop all movement and contacts for a four-week period.” Another option, one recommended by the World Health Organization, would be to conduct intensive testing, tracking, and quarantine of infected patients. Or, he said, Sweden could pursue a third option: “Let the spread of infection take place, slowly or quickly, to achieve a hypothetical herd immunity.”
Tull warned: “One thing is known that with option three Sweden will probably have thousands of deaths,” and concluded that “option three appears to me as a defeatist and headless strategy, which I would never have accepted in my previous role.”
Right from the start, according to recently declassified internal emails, Tegnell seemed resigned to pursuing herd immunity for Swedes, seeing little chance of stopping COVID-19 through the means successfully employed in other countries.
Tegnell, the state epidemiologist, answered him the same day: “Well, we have walked through this and after everything landed on [option] three. We probably have a fairly extensive silent spread, which would mean that the first two would probably not work.”
Tull outlined actions to take including issuing general advice and regulations for testing and contact-tracing. Tegnell demurred, arguing that such a strategy hadn’t worked in Italy. Tull countered that it worked in China and South Korea—so why not in Sweden?
Right from the start of the pandemic, according to recently declassified internal emails seen by
Foreign Policy, Tegnell seemed resigned to pursuing herd immunity for Swedes, seeing little chance of stopping COVID-19 through the means successfully employed in other countries such as South Korea or Vietnam.
Whether or not Sweden publicly admitted its strategy was to pursue herd immunity, other countries began to cite its approach as such. In July, according to a report in
Politico, White House advisors
promoting herd immunity
referenced a June study by Sweden’s pandemic modeler, Tom Britton, which said that herd immunity could occur after just 43 percent of a population became infected—an estimate far lower than what most other epidemiologists have put forward. Britton told
Foreign Policy that his calculations that Sweden would reach herd immunity turned out to be incorrect. Britton now says that U.S. government officials misinterpreted his study and that using his June research to promote herd immunity was wrong, adding that “too many people will die in order to reach herd immunity.”
The Swedish and international public, though, were repeatedly told that herd immunity was not Stockholm’s objective.
State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency of Sweden talks to reporters after a news conference in Stockholm on May 6. CLAUDIO BRESCIANI/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images
- On March 15, the day Tegnell wrote Tull they had landed on option three, Tegnell said the Public Health Agency’s “main tactic” was not herd immunity, adding that its goal and herd immunity were “not contradictory.” But in public, Tegnell frequently argued that herd immunity was “definitely not” a goal. As recently as Nov. 18, Minister of Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren said that the idea that Sweden had pursued a herd immunity strategy was a “rumor.”
The day before his correspondence with Tull, Tegnell forwarded an
email to his Finnish counterpart, Mika Salminen, which contained a recommendation from a doctor to allow people to become infected with COVID-19. “One point would be to keep schools open to reach herd immunity more quickly,” Tegnell
wrote.
Salminen said his agency had ultimately rejected such an approach, realizing children would still spread the virus, whereas closing schools could limit the disease’s impact on the elderly by about 10 percent. Tegnell, who still thought that quickly achieving herd immunity was the best strategy, responded: “10 percent might be worth it?”
The next day, Tegnell forwarded a study on Italy’s experience with COVID-19 to Jan Albert, a professor of microbiology, who was part of a coronavirus
expert group assembled a few weeks earlier by the Karolinska Institute, a university and the center of Sweden’s medical research community. Tegnell pointed to what seemed to be a “flattening of new cases” there.
“In the autumn there will be a second wave. Sweden will have a high level of immunity and the number of cases will probably be quite low,” Tegnell said, a claim he repeated into mid-October.
Albert replied: “Exactly. But most people think it’s just the lockdown. How much [is because of] lockdown and how much [is because of] herd immunity is really the key issue.” Tegnell answered: “If anyone had time, you should look at the various lockdowns that have been made and what the development looks like afterwards. I believe more in herd immunity.’’
Tegnell remained convinced that a rapid spread of the virus would shield Sweden, a belief that seemed to lead the country’s whole response to the crisis. A month after corresponding with Tull, Tegnell
said Stockholm could achieve herd immunity in May. Three weeks later, he
said: “In the autumn there will be a second wave. Sweden will have a high level of immunity and the number of cases will probably be quite low,” a
claim he repeated into mid-October.
Carlson, Tegnell’s boss,
echoed on Aug. 30 what Tegnell wrote Tull: “It is not about us sacrificing a lot of people to achieve immunity. This model was the only one that was feasible. Our assessment has proven to be correct. The strategy must last over time. We are one of the few countries with a limited spread of infection, unlike several countries in Europe where the infection returns sharply.”
It didn’t work out that way. Sweden is facing an
increase in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. On Nov. 5, the country reached the grim statistic of 6,000 deaths. In the six weeks since, nearly 2,000 more have died. In the week ending Dec. 18, Sweden
registered 479 new deaths, more than Norway has during the entire pandemic.
People gather for drinks at the Half Way Inn pub in central Stockholm on March 23. Sweden is the only democratic country in the world that does not recommend masks as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
Maskless passengers wait on a crowded train platform in Stockholm on Dec. 4. Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images
The fatalistic approach taken by Sweden’s health authorities beginning in March shaped nearly every aspect of the country’s response to the pandemic for the rest of the year: If the coronavirus can’t be successfully contained, as Tegnell and others argued in private, then why implement measures such as mask mandates, limits on retirement home visits, or restricting people’s movements?
From the very beginning, Sweden sought a different approach—even if it said publicly that it was following the same strategy as other countries. On March 4, before Sweden’s first official death from COVID-19, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control convened a
meeting for European Union countries and WHO. Sweden did not participate.
A day after Tegnell corresponded with Tull, he discussed the EU’s not-yet-released border
recommendations, including health checks, with Andreas Johansson and others at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. “This table contains a long list of details where we have a completely different strategy in Sweden,” he wrote. Tegnell opposed border health screenings and did not support EU measures to limit case importation or exportation, arguing that since domestic spread had already begun in most countries, border limits would be relatively meaningless.
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You may have posted about the article above but I wanted to revisit that article because it explains why the Trump / Pence administration, Scott Atlas, Sweden and Tegnell has all denied Natural Herd Immunity was their goal.
They know if the world knew what actually was being decided in privacy...world public health policies would have gone with their computer models and held congressional / parliament investigations about what these individuals were truly trying to do.
- There would have been summer riots (2020) and storming of the Capitol (Jan 2021) look like childplay.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the WHO declaring Covid a Pandemic. People in the government needs to be held accountable.
- +3k healthcare individuals lost their lives to Covid while trying to save the lives of those infected with Covid. I'm lucky, there are 3 relatives working on the frontlines in the United States and my girlfriend here in Québec, Canada...I have not lost any of them.
If the above truth doesn't bother you...take a close look at our fallen law enforcement individuals killed by Covid / Tegnell / Trump Pence administration / Scott Atlas.
Now we have to deal with the misinformation campaign from the Covidiots on the Right...poisoning the minds of those in the ethnic communities...causing many to believe the vaccines are not safe and should not be taken.
Simply, the bullshit politics is continuing so that more will die from Covid and bitch about lockdowns / restrictions to help create FEAR. In some ways, continuing the false narratives about
Natural Herd Immunity on local levels.
The only positive about this bullshit...we were able to vote out that prior corrupt administration that wanted to kill off as many Americans as possible for the sake of some bullshit
Natural Herd Immunity policy that they got from a guy in Sweden that's now publicly denying such was his policy and the Swedish government / health officials has admitted that
Natural Herd Immunity had failed although they don't refer to it as Natural Herd Immunity.
- I call bullshit on Sweden.
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