Check out this online open lecture by Lizhi Liu as part of the Perspective Asia Lecture Series here at Lund University. It's open to all, just register at the link.

www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cli...

In Sweden, you know it's almost December when supermarkets prompt you to top up your saffron supply at the register.

For those in the Lund area, check out this screening of Made in Ethiopia in a couple weeks. I'll be leading a post-screening discussion. kino.nu/made-in-ethi...

I thought that economist cover looked kinda familiar...

Check out our final Perspective Asia lecture of the term. This one is online and open to all.

Registration in the link:
www.ace.lu.se/calendar/mak...

There is a torrent of horrifying news at the moment, but this is about as bad as it gets...

In the essay we expand substantially on the criticisms in our original piece and provide lots of receipts.

The stakes are high. If the Swedish pandemic response is normalised by the left as we continue our descent into the age of chronic crisis, we are in trouble. 5/

And obviously basing a pandemic strategy on individual responsibility and the assumption of mass infection is a recipe for direct harm to vulnerable groups.

The people in charge of the strategy were open and explicit about this. That leftists jump to their defence is bizarre. 4/

The people in charge of pandemic policy completely underestimated the fatality ratio of covid—and of course ignored the potential for long-term health problems.

Again, this is very well documented, and the attempt to pretend otherwise is both laughable and disturbing. 3/

The Swedish pandemic response was explicitly based on the idea that the vast majority of the population should be infected prior to vaccines in order to achieve an imagined herd immunity.

This is well documented and no amount of historical revisionism can change this fact. 2/

Markus and I have written a follow-up to our essay outlining the failures of the Swedish pandemic response.

This is in response to a misguided defence of the strategy by a former government adviser—a textbook example of knee-jerk pandemic nationalism. 1/
jacobin.com/2023/12/swed...

Went to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg and I think I may have found one of the inspirations for Musk's cybertruck...

An excellent piece by Markus on the public health paternalism that we have experienced in Sweden during the pandemic.

Sitting in Sweden and watching accountability being dished out by the UK's covid inquiry is like peering into an alternate dimension.

Beyond the arctic circle

Reason enough to be on this platform 😂