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To: koan who wrote (1217236)	4/8/2020 8:05:15 PM
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Wall St says "good riddance to bad rubbish". Dow Soars 780 Points as Breadline Bernie Quits

To: koan who wrote (1217236)	4/21/2020 10:59:32 PM
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Evil Returns to Sweden April 20, 2020 Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this op-ed from the Swedish daily Nyheter Idag. It was published in December of 2018, and refers to the two young Scandinavian women who had been slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in Morocco the week before: Ann Heberlein: Evil in Morocco Today, Sweden is for Islamic State (IS) terrorists what Argentina and Brazil were for Nazis after the Second World War. A sanctuary where they can lick their wounds and start a new life without taking the consequences for all the abuses and crimes they committed. Instead of being locked up, the terrorists receive visits from social workers. It is high time that Sweden changes its attitude, writes Ann Heberlein. “Evil,” wrote Hannah Arendt in Responsibility and Judgment, “is something that makes us think, ‘This should not have happened.’” In the middle of preparations for Christmas, evil is brought to mind — first, an act of terror at a Christmas market in Strasbourg. A man senselessly shoots straight into a group of people drinking mulled wine and buying Christmas presents. Five people die and ten are wounded. This should not have happened. Barely a week after the massacre in Strasbourg, two young women, Norwegian Maren, age 28, and Dane Louisa, age 24, are found brutally murdered in Morocco. The two friends were to spend the Christmas holidays hiking in the Atlas Mountains. It would be an adventure, a memory of a lifetime; it ended with their deaths. Several men sit in custody, suspected of killing both girls. This shouldn’t have happened. The common denominator for the acts is spelled Islamism. The perpetrator in Strasbourg, as well as the murderers in Morocco, are reported to be Islamic terrorists. Blinded by religious fanaticism and hatred against our Western lifestyle they consider sinful, they turn on innocent people. We are their enemies. At the same time, home in Sweden, social services and politicians discuss how we best treat the “returnees” who are now coming back to Sweden as ISIS loses ground in Syria and Iraq. As the Islamist dream of a caliphate seems increasingly distant, Sweden, with its forgiving attitude and its generous welfare system, is as good as a treat for the terrorists: Because that is precisely what they are, terrorists, with human lives on their consciences and blood on their hands. To call these men “returnees” — as if they studied or worked abroad for a time — is a mockery of their victims. Since 2012 — so far as we know — about 150 people have returned to Sweden after having fought for jihadist, violent organizations in Syria and Iraq. In Stockholm, people are waiting for them to report to social services to be “de-radicalized”. In Gothenburg, they are sought out by social workers who will “ensure that they share our values”. Well-meaning Swedish sociologists will talk Islamic terrorists into justice. “It’s about opening a way for them,” says Bettan Byvald, a sociologist who seeks out many of the returning jihadists. In neighboring Denmark, returning jihadists lose their citizenship. In Sweden, we tie ourselves into a knot to “understand” and talk terrorists into the right way, all with the starting point of the banal faith in the innate goodness of each person. No wonder Sweden has become for Islamists what Argentina and Brazil were for Nazis: a safe retreat where they can lick their wounds and rest. Swedish compliance and naïveté have created a good environment for so-called terror tourism. Anna Sundberg, earlier married to a mujahideen, describes in the book Dear Terrorist— 16 years with Militant Islamists how Islamists use Sweden in their activities. Sundberg believes that “terror tourism, that is to say that terrorists commuting between a safe existence in Sweden and fighting in Islam’s name in Afghanistan and Syria, for example, or participating in terrorist acts in Europe, has been occurring since the turn of the millennium.” The generous Swedish welfare system, in association with a widespread lack of need, makes Sweden an excellent country for an Islamist terrorist to rest between jihads. In Sweden Islamists can forge plans in peace and quiet without risking being disturbed by anything worse than Bettan Byvald, who, with his troubled head on crooked, wants “to open up a way for them”. We must change our attitude in relation to those who leave Sweden to join Islamist organizations. We are not talking about confused teenagers who make a mistake. These are people who, of their own free will, choose to team up with organizations that regard us, Westerners, as their enemies. We should not open up a way for them, as Bettan Byvald suggests. We will close all doors for those who attach themselves to evil.

To: koan who wrote (1217236)	4/25/2020 2:57:25 AM
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Sweden’s Elderly Get the Kiss of Death From Socialized Health Care April 24, 2020 Jon Tallinger MD is a Swedish family practice physician in a suburb of Stockholm. In recent days he has gained fame as a whistleblower who made public the official guidelines of the Swedish public health service: Very old COVID-19 patients, or those with COVID and additional severe health conditions, are not to be sent to the hospital to receive oxygen therapy, which might in fact help them survive the disease and recover. Nursing homes and family practice doctors are not permitted to administer oxygen, so there is then no possibility for a very old coronavirus-infected patient to receive oxygen therapy. The recommended alternative is that such patients be given morphine as a palliative measure. This will kill their pain, help shut down their breathing, and send them off to the glorious Folkhemmet in the sky with a smile on their face. Below is an interview with Dr. Tallinger about the state directive on oxygen therapy. I’ll make explicit what is only implied in Dr. Tallinger’s remarks: the Swedish establishment apparently views the current crisis as an opportunity to administer euthanasia to the very old behind the scrim of COVID-19, thus reducing costs over the next decade or two and allowing the socialized health care system to survive on life support for that much longer. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for conducting the interview and uploading the video: Video link

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5/2/2020 2:13:31 PM

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Swedish Press Conference on COVID-19
May 1, 2020

The following video contains excerpts from a press conference in Sweden about data errors in the official projections used concerning the Wuhan Coronavirus. The man answering the questions is Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist for Sweden.

What I found interesting in this clip is that Dr. Tegnell is refreshingly straightforward. I must be accustomed to American press conferences, where official spokescreatures usually drown the audience in doubletalk, spin, obfuscation, misdirection, and bafflegab.

Many thanks to Kronans Martell (Ullis News) for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video link

Video transcript:

16:59		Questions.
17:05		Sweden Radio journalist: I have a question for the Public Health Agency,
17:11		regarding the model used to show the spread in Stockholm,
17:17		which was presented yesterday and was withdrawn this morning “due to serious faults.”
17:23		What are these serious faults? And, does that also indicate that the peak
17:28		which was believed to have already been reached on April 15 isn’t correct?
17:33		We are working on it, and we will release an updated version tomorrow.
17:39		But to say it briefly without getting very technical: Such models are difficult.
17:45		We had a wrong variable from the beginning and the number of cases weren’t updated in that model.
17:54		That variable, in its turn, caused an increase in another variable
17:59		to reach the benchmark, the 2.5% which was calculated.
18:04		Therefore, the variable was very high.
18:07		That variable was the difference between the discovered
18:10		and the undiscovered cases. That’s why it was very high.
18:13		Many on our side have read it and we should have had noticed it.
18:17		We are happy that someone has detected it and,
18:20		we were able to stop it in time before it was spread widely!
18:23		But it doesn’t cause changes in the other parts, such as the peak;
18:26		it will stay approximately at the same level. But we will get back to this tomorrow.
18:29		We will read it again, and will get back tomorrow.
18:33		The model was off for a period of time. Aren’t you worried
18:36		that it would somehow harm your credibility?
18:39		I hope not. With very good help from outside,
18:43		the mistake was swiftly detected and can be corrected.
18:48		The basic assessments of the model still stand and are valid.
18:57		TV4 journalist: I would like to ask a similar question,
19:03		concerning the report you published yesterday, and it contained mistakes!
19:09		What is in that model that still stands and valid? Was the peak on April 15 or not?
19:14		It will reach there on the day. The peak varies by a few or some days apart. Not longer.
19:23		What about the assessment that two-thirds of Stockholm’s residents
19:27		would be infected by the beginning of May. Is that still correct?
19:31		Yes, it is approximately at the same level. —So what was the mistake?
19:35		The mistake was about the compensation effect generated in the model, which proposed that:
19:42		“Behind every case we found there are one thousand more cases in the community.”
19:46		That was wrong and we are correcting it.
24:20		I would like to ask about the peak reached “some day” “between” April 15th and 18th.
24:29		Dr. Per Follin, who is an Infectious Disease Control doctor,
24:34		has experienced that cases are increasing in Stockholm County.
24:40		How can your view be very different?
24:44		I don’t know if he says that it’s increasing, but rather that we should keep it consistent.
24:48		The peak we are talking about is the spread of the disease in respect to when it is the largest.
24:53		It takes about a week until you get sick, and several more days
24:57		to require medical care in hospitals, if needed.
25:01		So it takes roughly ten days for the peak to reach
25:05		the medical care system. We haven’t even come that far yet.
25:09		What he experiences is real in that sense. It’s currently a flattened curve.
25:15		But we understand the concern in Stockholm, because it approaches the limit of capacity.
25:21		We sincerely want to go through it. So that is important,
25:25		especially in Stockholm, to stay home and limit social contacts.
25:30		We have encountered this for a long time. I understand the concern
25:35		when we come close to something which can be an improvement.
25:40		Emanuel Karlsten is with us online.
25:45		I am wondering about the graphic of the number of the COVID-19 deaths.
25:54		It is a huge time lag! What you are showing here today is from March,
25:58		which makes the data three weeks old.
26:04		But you, Anders Tegnell, still stated that
26:08		“We have reached the plateau [flattening the curve].”
26:13		Is it reasonable to conclude that it is actually not a plateau,
26:16		but it is more accurately a time lag?
26:19		How are we to understand it? And, how would that affect the model?
26:25		We are not using the number of deaths in the model.
26:29		Because they are uncertain in many senses, such a case time lag.
26:33		The model is built comprehensively on the number of diagnosed cases. It doesn’t affect it.
26:39		I have said numerous times that the number of deaths is significant in many senses,
26:43		but not in regard to the model’s composition! The lag is very large.
26:48		It takes a quite long time between infection and decease. It is not a good tool to control.
26:55		We have apparently run a quality match against the number of registered deaths.
27:04		And we have found a number of cases where they passed away long after they were infected.
27:11		For some reason, they weren’t detected in the medical care system, but we are currently
27:16		running a quality control process, and we can detect them.
27:21		We are doing it approximately once a week and we sometimes find cases which date back a ways.
27:27		When we reach out now and ask about deaths because of COVID-19,
27:31		we get unusual answers which we weren’t getting earlier.
27:35		It could possibly be because of the Easter Holidays. So the staff had a lot to do,
27:39		and perhaps they didn’t have time to register the death cases.
27:44		Is it your view that you are currently on a flattened curve? How to assess it?
27:52		It has spread out across so many days and doesn’t affect what the curve looks like.
28:00		It’s apparent specifics in the report included mistakes, and such criticisms were raised
28:06		against it … but not against the earlier models, because
28:12		you aren’t transparent in regard to which models you are using to reach such conclusions.
28:16		Are you going to be more transparent in the future in regard to
28:19		which mathematical models you are using to conclude your results?
28:22		We have always been transparent.
28:25		And the model will be published and be available for everybody.
28:29		Everybody can download the data from our website.
28:32		So I don’t know in which part we aren’t transparent.