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by addicted 2205 days ago
They were in “quarantine”.

Tegnell didn’t believe in the existence of asymptomatic carriers so younger care workers were allowed to visit them freely as long as they didn’t show symptoms.

He made a huge mistake but is simply unwilling to admit it.

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Care takers have been forced to work with symptoms, and there's even one known case where a woman went to work at her care home after testing positive for covid-19 and staying quiet about it.

This would not have changed with a different strategy.

The actual execution of how elderly care is run, is very sloppy too. Lots of people come and go and didn't even use any PPE because there wasn't any.

Also not washing hands, and using PPE incorrectly, and so on.