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“We have failed. We have a lot of deaths and it is terrible.” The words spoken by the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf during the usual Christmas interview that will be broadcast in its entirety on December 21, but of which SVT News has published an excerpt, sound like a definitive phrase. The Scandinavian ruler did not beat around the bush to judge the strategy put in place by the government to combat the coronavirus epidemic, namely, not to impose a total blockade but to rely solely on the citizens’ sense of responsibility, inviting them to avoid the meetings. A strategy that was unsuccessful due to the admission of the eight experts appointed in June by the government, who two days ago pointed the finger in particular in the management of cases of rest, where “serious structural deficiencies”, protection devices endowment insufficient staff, delays in testing and lack of restrictions on visits from abroad.
Since the start of the health emergency, Sweden has registered almost 350 thousand infections (+ 7 thousand in the last 24 hours) and 7,802 deaths (+135): the vast majority of deaths corresponded to people over 70 years of age and this not only because of the “serious structural deficiencies” of nursing homes, but also about all “for the widespread spread of the virus in society.” The government was “the main responsible”, according to the commission of experts appointed in June. To them, however, the sovereign did: “It was a terrible 2020, considering all the people who have died. To the pain and frustration of many families is added that of innumerable businessmen on their knees, who had to close their businesses.” . Therefore, Carl XVI Gustaf has also denied the thesis according to which avoiding a blockade would have at least saved the economy: it was not like that, obviously, and the economic catastrophe also added to the health catastrophe.
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