Since World War Two Sweden has been a welcoming harbour for many. Polish submarine crews, a Norwegian army division, Danish jews, suppressed people from Latin America, those fleeing the Balkans wars and a few years ago many Syrians. But in December 2020 and in January 2021 the government in Stockholm closed the borders for its […]
COVID19
Sweden has No Second Wave, Keeps on Surfing The Big One
UPDATED 18 December 2020 | Sweden, the country that took a whole different approach to the COVID19 pandemic, is solo surfing as 2021 is approaching. True, the central government in Stockholm has slowly changed its stand a bit and has incorporated many of the limits implemented in other countries, but all in the Swedish way. […]
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Despite positive media reports, Corona is not good in Sweden
Many international media, including leading Belgian newspapers, published positive articles on COVID19 in Sweden September this year. But despite their optimism, the Corona situation in Scandinavia’s most populated and biggest country is doing far from good. I gave guidance in the popular Belgian Radio 1 program Nieuwe feiten on 23 September. As seen earlier during […]
A different Midsummer, as Sweden let its elderly die
How badly prepared Sweden was for any pandemic became painstaikingly clear right from the beginning of the COVID19 outbreak. Apart from the lack of basic medical supplies in the hospitals, protecting the elderly totally failed. The nurses taking care of them were refused protection gear. Many elderly homes denied the elderly a chance to live, […]
Stranded in Corona times. Act 2: The Confrontation
During the COVID19 pandemic I got stranded in Warsaw. Coming from a Northern European nation with a lot of freedom, even in Corona times, all of a sudden I was living in a country where a very conservative government was making sometimes very questionable attempts to control its citizens, and me. Act 2 of my […]