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Your comment reminds me of the that Swedish "If crisis or war comes" pamphlet sent to all Swedish households in 2018. Right on the second page is a warning about "false information":

https://www.dinsakerhet.se/siteassets/dinsakerhet.se/broschy...

Maybe a "mental herd immunity" against viral propaganda is a necessary first step to develop a biological herd immunity ;)



Well, surely it's not working at the present time. A politician interviewed who went out to get the virus and then attended meetings was completely unconcerned about spreading it to his peers.

Interviewer: "But can you understand his concern [about his risk due to his health conditions]?"

Persson: "No, I do not. He's 50 years old. There is no risk to him. He doesn't get sick of this."

Interviewer: "But do you know that even younger people get sick and die of corona?"

Persson: "There is no reason to be worried. It's a hysteria. It is the same as with the climate. It is not possible to change. We cannot influence it politically."

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/varmland/storforspolitiker...

And yet, somewhat bizarrely, Sweden has been latched onto as the model for a sane response to the virus amongst many conservative circles. I will hold my breath as they fail to take action against a disease with 10 times the IFR of the flu and many fold the transmissibility, with the CDC now reporting an r0 of 3.8–8.9 in a 95% CI.


That interviewed person is from a local party in a small municipality. Very fringe.

Of course the US right tries to score points from the lack of a hard lockdown here. But I wonder how well that would have worked without universal healthcare and salaries partly (80%?) paid by government for the time being.


Many would argue that the pamphlet is in itself untrustworthy state propaganda, so I can't even begin to guess at a good solution.




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