Daily: Sweden’s Corona gamble

<p>While the rest of Europe locked down, Sweden took a different and much looser path on dealing with COVID. Is their controversial approach working? Is Sweden right to measure itself against a longer-term tally of suffering caused by the virus’s economic consequences, and not just the immediate death toll? <strong>Andrew Brown</strong>, author of <a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/book-title/fishing-in-utopia-sweden-the-future-that-disappeared/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared</em></a> talks to Ros Taylor about the biggest COVID gamble in Europe.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“There’s a view that everyone is pursuing the Swedish strategy, whether they know it or not.”</em></li><li><em>“This is a fairly brutal way of doing it. But Sweden’s view is that the facts are brutal.”&nbsp;</em></li><li><em>“Swedish opinion is like a shoal of herring. They all head in the same direction together –&nbsp;but that direction can change suddenly.”</em></li><li><em>“The Swedish government can be extremely bossy – but part of the technique of social control was to deny that it existed.”</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. <strong>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.&nbsp;</strong></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>