Originally Posted by GUWonder

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/coron...ockdown-471767

It’s an entertaining read, including the aspect about The Bridge with its stereotypes.

Something too few people realize is that there is a lot of xenophobia/racism built-into into the government system and society at large, and one aspect of that has been a built-in superiority complex about who is “moral” and “sanitary” and who is not so much. And that (i.e. not being viewed as morally and sanitarily superior) is why Sweden is struggling with its people being excluded from the welcomed groups of tourists in its neighboring countries and various other places.

And the hiding behind “our deaths were mostly at elderly care homes” kind of rhetoric is full of various dog whistles, even as there is a lot of truth to there being a lot of the deaths from elderly care homes and due to elderly care programs. But decentralization of health care and health care administration/oversight and relative defunding of programs to care for the vulnerable has been an issue going back to many years before this coronavirus hit.