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It was a united and serious prime minister who on Sunday night spoke to the nation with Swedish flags and an EU flag behind him. The speech of more than five minutes did not contain any new restrictions, but was a clear call to everyone in Sweden not to let go but to continue to take responsibility for stopping the spread of the coronavirus.
The Prime Minister’s speech will arrive in a situation where the number of confirmed infections per day is three times higher than six months ago.
– The little respite we had during the summer and fall is really over. What we as a country do wrong now, we will suffer later. What we do now we will enjoy later, Löfven said when pointing towards Christmas and New Years:
– What we do now affects how Lucia’s celebration will be. How will the Christmas celebration be? Who will continue with us this Christmas. It may sound harsh. It may sound brutal. But that is how harsh and brutal reality is.
It has been unusual so far that a Swedish prime minister addresses the nation. Stefan Löfven did so after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan on April 7, 2017 and at the beginning of the corona pandemic. Then, on March 22 of this year, Löfven described what was about to happen as “one of the few turning points in life.” “Life, health and employment are threatened,” he said.
On the same day the speech was held, 1,906 people had been confirmed infected and fewer than 50 had died. On Sunday, exactly eight months later, more than 208,000 infected were confirmed and the death toll is approaching 6,500.
– This spring, there were many who He said that he made life easier after all for the coronavirus to hit in light March and not dark November. It is now November. Health and human lives remain in danger. And the danger increases.
– More and more people are infected. More and more intensive care units are being used to care for patients with severe covidular disease. More and more people die.
– Let us remember that more than 6,000 people in Sweden have already died with covid-19. Let us remember that around every deceased person there are people who have been deprived of a loved parent, a loved child, or a loved friend. Let us remember how prepared the care and nursing staff were. And let’s remember that they are still working, day and night, to save lives, said Stefan Löfven.
But Löfven also wanted instill hope:
– To you who feel that everything is dark now, I want to say: the situation is not hopeless.
– Sweden is on trial. But Sweden will stand firm. Healthcare and care work, after all. After all, houses and roads are being built. Our children get an education and a desire to learn, after all.
As in the last century Stefan Löfven came to emphasize the importance of cohesion and acting as a nation where all people have a great responsibility. But he also recalled that the fall has not developed well in terms of the spread of the infection:
– During the fall, too many have stopped following the advice and recommendations. But now we see how people take responsibility again. How travel decreases and home work increases. Keep it up and wait. But everyone must do more. It is up to you and me, said the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister concluded the number of looking forward:
– When we go through this crisis, everyone should be able to remember how we help each other. Remember solidarity. Remember the feeling of community and the feeling of doing the right thing. Remember how we reduced the spread of infection and raised our country.
To be clear, this must all show cohesion and responsibility, said Löfven:
– But then we must show our cohesion and our responsibility here and now. And that it is stronger than the virus that we must defeat. Now we do this. Together. For Sweden.
