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Something the heck is going on with your computer or connection and you are suddenly faced with two options according to a box on the screen: “Report” or “Ignore”?
Sometimes it feels like media coverage of certain greedy opinions also ends up at that kind of simpler crossroads, and most of the time they seem to press “Ignore.”
Everyone agrees with some decently updated alibi pages with data on covid-19, the spread of the infection, and the situation in the world; elsewhere, scaremongering has spread. We must have something fun.
Now all of a sudden we are getting into all kinds of independent alarm reports. “Difficult to chew? It can be crown. “
Unfortunately, it has become It’s getting harder and harder to find media coverage that feels really relevant and consistent. It is spreading in all directions. Sweden’s official stance and strategy is rarely questioned, there is a bit of a grudge in some leadership position, but it probably feels like most people seem afraid of clashing with the public.
Readers and viewers have faithfully and ably followed and believed in the Public Health Agency’s restrictions (which we believe in more than anything else), and the holy halo of Anders Tegnell certainly no one has tried to remove. Very cautiously, this summer I questioned the advisability of him being on an entertainment show, doing summer talks about life and career; the general opinion was that it should be isolated in Gotska Sandön for at least three years. Don’t touch our Anders.
Most agree that the journalism they dare not broadcast soon becomes completely uninteresting, but very few seem to want / dare to question the official line. Not seriously. When Stefan Löfven in a television talk teaches citizens like little children, complains about our carelessness and transfers all responsibility to us (very appropriate, because then he avoids all his own responsibility), then everyone hums.
SVT quickly changed and good when the crisis arrived. Then you stood there in a kind of smug pose. There haven’t been many new grips during the fall.
Doctor Sven Roman described in an Expressen column a few weeks ago how mass hysteria gripped the entire Western world from the beginning and how the most primitive part of our brain was allowed to control, above all, politicians, but also to scientists and no less to a large part of the population. “Decision of the amygdala,” Roman called it, and the amygdala is then the ancient and primitive part of the brain, completely driven by emotions.
Sven Román tried to point out the almost unforeseen consequences of hasty lockdowns, perhaps not in our absolute neighborhood, but in the already poorest and most vulnerable parts of the world.
Nobody cared about one fog over Roman’s text. I had too much perspective and of course it would only get even more complicated to add new difficult facts.
Thank you, but don’t start complaining that millions of children are dying from malaria and tuberculosis because there are no resources, we can’t have more balls in the air right now!
Unfortunately, we have to accept and talk about health professionals getting on their knees; otherwise, the media has begun to slow down and tire, and it is not entirely incomprehensible, we are all exhausted. But: Couldn’t a questioning of the Swedish strategy at the same time also lead to a questioning of the media’s own strategy, namely that of kindly reporting and obediently accepting? Hold on and be silent.
We haven’t had a good debate on these issues, we probably won’t understand either. Or is there someone upstream?
I can imagine a full day hearing on SVT where all serious criticisms of the prevailing line are posted and examined. Not when it’s over, but today, now.
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