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If you want to compare with Sweden, the page Ekonomifakta does good summaries. Swedish only, I'm afraid:

https://www.ekonomifakta.se/sakomraden/arbetsmarknad/sysselsattning/sjukskrivna_1208898.html

Basically, there's no post-Covid increase.

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I've been doing these comparisons for some 4+ years now: it points squarely at major policy failures outside Sweden, which is also why no-one wants to talk about it.

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Isn't it weird that none of /our/ authorities seems willing to alert anyone of the rather glaring differences between f.e. Sweden and Germany?

You'd think politicians and "experts" here would crowing about their superiority - that'd be normal for them. But instead, if Covid is mentioned at all it is either when people get alerts for boosters (only the elderly and most vulnerable nowadays) or it's with a sort-of "it was really bad and we were lucky, is all".

Call me suspicious but I really think that the "secret" meetings von der Leyen and other EU-functionaries has had with Kristersson and people from his cabinet since Autumn 2022 is the EU making damn sure Sweden doesn't spread the word.

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Well, I'm thinking it might be a kind of 'control group' thing, too. Remember, Nordic public health (sic) authorities (sic) know exactly how many of these poison/death juices were administered and to whom. They could 'solve' these issues literally within half a moment, but none of them moves.

Call me suspicious, but I really think you're onto something here. If any of them spoke, it would be the mother of all 'the emperor is naked' moments.

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