“Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives.”
“During spring 2020, many individuals were not admitted to the hospitals, and did not even receive a health examination since they were not considered at risk – resulting in individuals dying at home despite trying to seek help”
“there were triage instructions available in Stockholm region, showing that individuals with comorbidities, body mass index above 40 kg/m2, older age (80+) were not to be admitted to intensive care units, since they were unlikely to recover”
“Appropriate (potentially life-saving) treatment was withheld without medical examination, and without informing the patient or his/her family or asking permission”
“the common narrative being that those in care homes are expected to die soon anyway”
“Email conversations and statements from the State Epidemiologist and others show that they at least speculated on the use of children to acquire herd-immunity, while at the same time publicly claiming children played a negligible role in transmission and did not become ill”
“scientific methodology was not followed by the major figures in the acting authorities or the responsible politicians”
“the authority lacked expertise and could disregard scientific facts”[/b]
“The Swedish people were kept in ignorance of basic facts such as the airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission”
“Many schools did not inform parents or even teachers about confirmed COVID-19 transmission on the premises, nor reported it to official agencies, and urged parents not to tell if their children were infected”
...The Swedish response to this pandemic was unique and characterised by a morally, ethically, and scientifically questionable laissez-faire approach, a consequence of structural problems in the society. There was more emphasis on the protection of the “Swedish image” than on saving and protecting lives or on an evidence-based approach.
A strategy was never discussed among all relevant parties, and never implemented nor communicated to the public. In addition, there was an unwillingness and incapacity to admit any failures at all governmental levels; or to take any responsibility for the clearly detrimental outcomes for Swedish society.
There were even attempts to revise history by changing, or deleting official documents, communication, and websites, and gaslighting the public.
The Swedish authorities involved were not self-critical and did not engage in any official and open dialogue and misled the public by withholding correct information and even spreading misleading information.
A small group of so-called experts with a narrow disciplinary focus received a disproportionate and unquestioned amount of power in the discussion, nationally and internationally.
There was no intellectual/scientific discussion between stakeholders (including independent experts from different disciplines), and the international advice of WHO, ECDC and the scientific community was ignored and/or discredited.
