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At the beginning of March, Swedish politics changed in one go. The crisis of the crown was upon us, and all the party leaders joined the government’s strategy and gave the Public Health Agency the leader’s shirt.
From the weeks before they demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Löfven, declarations of loyalty came from the moderates, the Christian Democrats and the Swedish Democrats.
“Stefan Löfven, you are not alone in this, we fulfill it as a united country,” said for example SD’s Jimmie Åkesson in a speech at the end of March.
Politics went into crisis, and the contradictions froze. When the spread of the society was a fact, the tracing of the infection ceased completely, but neither party questioned it.
Nor did anyone sound the alarm that the care of the elderly did not receive any protective equipment during the first months of the crisis.
Politicians entered the workshop and came out with proposals to abolish qualification day and money for municipalities and regions hit with calls to wash their hands and protect the elderly.
This probably increased the support behind the Swedish crisis management and got more people to follow the advice of the authorities. It also meant that quick decisions could be made despite the government lacking a majority in the Riksdag.
There are great benefits For the country. But there are also downsides to the peace of the castle. Neither party pointed to an alternative strategy. For example, no one demanded that Sweden do the same as Norway, which on March 27, 2020 introduced a crown law, which made it possible to shut down the country. Sweden plans to introduce its own crown law only in March 2021, which says something about the slowness.
In late March this year, the moderate leader began advocating for mass testing. The government soon agreed, but it became a long series to figure out.
This is quite typical of criticism of the opposition, it was about the government being late, not that it did wrong. Only when the death toll from the corona spring was included and the spread of infection slowed did criticism erupt. Jimmie Åkesson (SD) spoke about a massacre, Ebba Busch (KD) that the government “bravely allowed a great spread of the infection in Sweden”.
But when the second wave resumed last fall, the opposition fell silent again.
Although the spread of the infection increased rapidly in late October, the government presented a relaxation of the strategy. Advice for people over 70 was relaxed and the limit was raised from 50 to 300 people for the audience seated at the events.
The opposition did not come with criticism or counterclaims.
Now the first report from the Crown Commission has arrived, which places the greatest responsibility on government. It provides a series of concrete proposals on how older people can be better protected. Now the question is whether the pandemic has made the parties want to pay the price of decent care for the elderly.
