{"id":176543,"date":"2020-05-21T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/21\/go-sweden\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:41:00","slug":"go-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/05\/21\/go-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Sweden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/KzsijJo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/KzsijJo.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Sweden&#8217;s handling of the Coronavirus is so bad that its neighbors are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/46733256-5a84-4429-89e0-8cce9d4095e4\">considering strengthening a cordon sanitaire around the Nordic nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Denmark, Finland and Norway are debating whether to maintain travel restrictions on Sweden but ease them for other countries as they nervously eye their Nordic neighbour\u2019s higher coronavirus death toll.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Sweden has the highest mortality rate per capita at this stage of the epidemic, according to a Financial Times tracker that uses a seven-day rolling average of new deaths. It has overtaken the UK, Italy and Belgium in recent days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Frode Forland, specialist director in infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, told the Financial Times keeping borders closed had \u201ca certain infectious-disease logic\u201d while a big difference in infection rates remained between countries. \u201cThe situation is quite different now between Norway and Sweden,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNorway, Denmark and Iceland have managed to stabilise their situation, but in Sweden the situation is more alarming,\u201d she said last week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Swedes are now doing worse than the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Your actions make Boris Johnson look smart by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>What the f%$# is wrong with you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s handling of the Coronavirus is so bad that its neighbors are considering strengthening a cordon sanitaire around the Nordic nation: Denmark, Finland and Norway are debating whether to maintain travel restrictions on Sweden but ease them for other countries as they nervously eye their Nordic neighbour\u2019s higher coronavirus death toll. Sweden has the highest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,588,572],"class_list":["post-176543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-fail","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}