Continuing the Debate on Sweden’s Pandemic Response
In Sweden, a center-left government’s pandemic response emphasized individual choice over state intervention.
A nurse wearing personal protective equipment in a tent on the grounds of the Sophiahemmet private hospital perform tests on a patient to see if she has symptoms of COVID-19 on April 22, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images)
First, we’d like to thank the former Swedish government adviser Daniel Johansson for responding to our article on how the Swedish pandemic response betrayed vulnerable populations. It gives us an opportunity to probe more deeply the ideological and moral failure of the Swedish left during the pandemic — a failure of historic proportions.
In spring 2020, Sweden opted for a pandemic response that predictably resulted in a very high level of COVID-19 spread. This led to thousands of deaths among vulnerable groups, at a time when Sweden’s Nordic neighbors and some other European countries kept contagion at much lower levels.
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