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[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sweden clear-cut its elderly population, let it spread like wildfire in nursing homes, and denied medical service to dying people at the peak of the infections.

Source?

[–]VirgilGriff 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

From late May:

Three-quarters of Swedes who have died have been either in nursing homes or receiving at-home care.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-sweden-coronavirus-deaths-health-authorities.html

From late June:

The health authorities have received many complaints about how elderly relatives were treated. A consistent theme is that nursing home residents with suspected Covid-19 were immediately placed on palliative care and given morphine and denied supplementary oxygen and intravenous fluids and nutrition. For many this was effectively a death sentence.

“People suffocated, it was horrible to watch. One patient asked me what I was giving him when I gave him the morphine injection, and I lied to him,” said Latifa Löfvenberg, a nurse. “Many died before their time. It was very, very difficult.”

The idea was to keep hospital ICUs from being overwhelmed by older patients with a low chance of survival. However, the surge never happened. Instead, the elderly were denied access to unused facilities.

https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/questions-raised-about-swedens-covid-19-policy-on-nursing-homes/13479

They murdered their parents so they could prepare for a wave of younger patients that never came. Sweden has a socialist healthcare system and you're at the mercy of the government as to whether or not you're going to receive medical care.

[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Probably not the best course of action.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wait, so they were worried that there would be this surge of sick people (like a pandemic) but then it never happened? Hmmm