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Now the Swedish model has failed, it’s time to ask who was pushing it – The Guardian
A light-touch approach to Covid-19 doesn’t work, but that didn’t stop pundits from advocating it for the UK, says openDemocracy’s Peter Geoghegan

OpinionA light-touch approach to Covid-19 doesnt work. But that didnt stop pundits and thinktanks from advocating it for the UK
When future historians come to write the story of Britains chaotic pandemic response, one question in particular will surely puzzle them: why, as the UK experienced one of the worlds worst Covid outbreaks, did so many prominent public figures spend so much of 2020 talking about Sweden?
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