Re:L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Elim...
by chewz on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:47AM
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Well the real reason there is no lockdown in Sweden is that the owners of the country said No to lockdown. The rest is just unique Swedish doublespeak.
https://www.ft.com/content/3b8ec9fe-6eb8-11ea-89df-41bea0557...
> An estimate from The Economist finds that the value of Swedish billionaires’ fortunes is equivalent to a quarter of the country’s annual gdp. Only in tax havens such as Cyprus or Monaco, or captured economies such as Russia or Georgia, are plutocrats more dominant
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/11/28/in-sweden-bill...
The comment about the deaths being primarily in particular communities sounds like the opposite of working, though. Can you provide context regarding why it's working if people in some communities are dying?
* Edit: thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize that your comment about measures working as intended was hinting at a eugenics motives of the policymakers when I first read it, but do now.