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Magdalena Andersson’s press secretary comments on Expressen that the Finance Minister always tries to avoid congestion on the advice of the Swedish Public Health Agency. It is an equally relevant explanation given by the prime minister’s press secretary on Tuesday that his shopping trip was “carefully planned.”
Do they really not understand what it is about, or are they responding misleadingly because they don’t have a reasonable answer and expect an unreasonable one to work?
No risk in itself
Because that’s:
No one has claimed that Stefan Löfven’s behavior carried a risk of further spread of the infection.
No one has said that Morgan Johansson broke any rules when he bought at the noon sale.
Nobody believes that Magdalena Andersson endangers her life and health when she hired skis in Sälen.
It is true that they have acted in direct violation of their own calls to refrain from unnecessary travel and new contacts. And of course the Prime Minister was with the watchmaker for a period when it was recommended that he refrain from visiting all stores other than supermarkets and pharmacies, but we can also ignore that, because the big problem is completely different.
Ebba Busch comes out first
And it grows with each new report we receive on how a higher one pushes the boundaries of what is acceptable to you and me. And they’re starting to get quite numerous now, ever since KD frontman Ebba Busch first came out when she was partying with influencers.
Jimmie Åkesson snorted through an entire parliamentary debate, then happily ran into the TV room. Clearly ill and awaiting information from a covid test.
Dan Eliasson, Managing Director of the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency, MSB – an agency that has been represented at all Public Health Agency press conferences and, as if not everything sounds too good to be true, also since it started The pandemic measures the propensity of the Swedish people to follow the guidelines – according to Expressen, they flew to the Canary Islands five days before Christmas Eve.
If the government and the Public Health Agency came out and urged all of us to refrain from all unnecessary travel just days before? Yes.
It’s about symbolic value
A couple of hours after my acquaintance on Twitter thanked Löfven, Morgan and Eliasson for making sure she didn’t have to have a bad conscience when she booked the trip to Sälen, she came back with a new post: “Thanks also to Magda. Now I don’t have to have such a bad conscience because I have to rent skis on the spot ”.
You really don’t need more than these short lines to explain what it is all about: symbolic value.
If the three heaviest ministers in the country, the CEO of a central authority in this context, and a couple of party leaders don’t care, why should I stay home? By their demeanor, they have simply shown that all those sad advice and recommendations can be dealt with a bit however you want.
If enough people think that way, we should probably wait for the spread of the infection to take off long before the next vaccine is approved.
And what is almost even more scary is that he is so calm about the opposition.
Is there anyone who has followed the instructions so much that they dare to comment on this?
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