Yves Smith – Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results

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I'm surprised at this, Sweden is considered a very social democratic country, but it looks like big business hijacked its public health policy. Foreign Affairs just published an article that attempts to depict the failed Swedish approach to Covid-19 as not just a success, but even the way of the future. I suppose if you regard failed state in the making like the US as a harbinger, you could view this description as accurate. But nations that aspire to better like South Korea, New Zealand, Germany, and the Czech Republic, would beg to differ. As reader juno mas put it earlier this week, “For a relatively rural, isolated nation, Sweden is a train wreck.” Naked Capitalism  Yves Smith - Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco

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