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The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. There seems to be some snarking between Tegnell

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2020, 04:16 PM

Mar 2020

and Berit Andersen, the chief epidemiologist in Norway, who says she thinks it's odd that, despite the known fact that quarantine and isolation reduce the spread of infection, Sweden is not using these practices. Tegnell has shrugged off this criticism, saying that Andersen hardly has more data than anyone else and that "most people who are serious in this field" will think it is too early to make such statements. https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/8mAVmw/sveriges-statsepidemiolog-tar-norsk-kritikk-med-ro

Why can't or won't they fire that guy?

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Sweden's coronavirus strategy is clearly different to other countries so who should people trust? [View all] Celerity Mar 2020 OP

There seems to be some snarking between Tegnell The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1

I DETEST Anders Tegnell as I have been documenting in multiple posts, he needs to be held criminally Celerity Mar 2020 #4

Why does he still have a job? Is he just parroting the official government line, The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #6

the government is paralysed (as usual) with fear and deferring to the so-called experts Celerity Mar 2020 #8

Maybe they have the hospital/health system capacity to handle a fast surge? n/t blitzen Mar 2020 #2

no we do not, no one does in the EU Celerity Mar 2020 #5

" snarking between Tegnell and Berit Andersen" mitch96 Mar 2020 #3

There was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common monarch Celerity Mar 2020 #7

But there was a war in 1814. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #9

Have not forgotten what? What are you trying to infer? All of Scandinavia was at war on and off Celerity Mar 2020 #10

Of course not, I was just kidding. My actual impression is that The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #11

ok, and I truly apologise for coming in all hot 'n argy bargy Celerity Mar 2020 #12