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Unsugarized_Foo posted...

You were only up to 7? I thought y'all were world champs for a few months and your hospitals turned into Workd War Z

That is the way it sounded in foreign media, yes. A majority of the deaths happened in nursing homes so our hospitals, while under huge stress of course, didnt descend into chaos like in Italy etc. I think that our 8 parties agreeing to not implement total lockdown is what triggered many media outlets which were campaigning for lockdowns in their own countries. Our politicians should have done several things differently for sure but there was an exaggerated media narrative. The biggest thing our politicians should have done is something they should have done before the pandemic even happened: fixing problems in our elderly care. If those problems hadnt existed our death toll would have been much lower :/

Graycap posted...

That sounds like the center-left is giving Sweden a right-wing government.

Drop the fuckin proposal. If they're the ones in power, losing that power is 100% their fault.

It is more complex than that.

There is strong support in Riksdagen for a more extreme form of market rental than what the Center-Left Government is proposing. When the two Government parties, the Socialdemocrats and the Green party, signed their budget partnership with the two Liberal parties back in January 2019 implementation of market rental was one of the Liberal victories. The Government parties have since then managed to reach a compromise on the issue which is more tame. This compromise is what the Far-Left object to since they dislike the notion all together (which I do agree with). The result now however is likely that the more extreme version of market rental will be the new normal instead of the watered down compromise which exempted all rental objects which currently exist and just would apply to new rental buildings.

If the Government had thrown out the proposal then they would have violated their agreement with the two Liberal parties and thus a Government crisis would happen anyway since the two Liberal parties would withdraw support from the Governments budget. If the budget has a majority against it the Government falls.

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