Hi @rippon , If they did start talking they might mission creep into how the UK could have been in the same position if we hadnât gone full neo-liberal privatisation bonkers in the 80âs and used our nationally owned oil reserves in a way to improve our whole society and its institutions such as health care! With a decent health care system not working towards full privatisation operating in lock step with Big Pharma we might also have noticed âcovid deathsâ were lower than covid vax deaths!
In the same way why is no-one talking about the turn around in the fortunes of most of India that pursued the ivermectin route rather than vaxxes!
compare May 2021:
with September 2021:
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Norway is a bit like the New Zealand of Europe: Fort Knox to get into and lockdowns, masks and social distancing the moment there are more than a dozen cases. So, a âsuccessâ in keeping numbers of cases and deaths from COVID down, but at what cost? Also at what future cost â can they ever open their borders properly?
A Swedish friend of mine couldnât take up his new position in Norway for months because he was denied entry. Only got in when his institution (which was losing money paying his wages) made him a âkey workerâ. Even then he needed to stay in prison* for a week. And the population seems to be scared stiff of getting infected.
*also called a quarantine hotel.
Wonder how Norge compares with Sweden now? Not so glaringly superior as the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard tried to make out a while back, I dare say. Sweden and Belarus seem to have had the better approach. Especially so as the picture on covid comes steadily clearer: a nasty real disease, but easily treatable with - genuinely - safeânâeff specifics, and no big deal, even for reasonably healthy elders; and certainly not worth wrecking your economy forâŠ
Hi folks, I found this little article on Norwayâs health system:
Norwayâs per person spend on health is the highest in the world, there is a small private sector - 10%- everyone pays through taxes and fees are subsidised with a fairly low total cap above which all is free.
Their gini index rating is amongst the lowest like all Scandinavian countries.
Sebastion Rushworthâs book on Covid had a 9th chapter comparing Sweden and other Scandinavian countries where key data showed some reasons why Sweden was always going to have a higher death rate - mainly due to its low 2019 death rate compared to the rest of Scandinavia which meant more fragile elderly would die in 2020. Also interesting :
âMalmö, itâs interesting to note that this city also functions as a kind of control group for the hypothesis that lockdown works. While the whole world was criticizing Sweden for its lame handling of Covid, few noticed that Malmö hardly experienced any cases at all, and showed a pattern much more similar to Denmark than to Stockholm. This is in spite of the fact that Denmark had tough restrictions while Malmö had the same restrictions as the rest of Sweden. Then winter came, and both Denmark and Malmö experienced an explosion of Covid. It doesnât make sense that lockdown would work in spring, but not in winter. Thus lockdown wasnât the reason that Denmark had so few infections in spring. Case closed.â
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