Updating Sweden -- The Meme Exposed -- May 16, 2020

Reminder: St Greta is the new authority on how to contain Wuhan flu. This should be a hoot.

First things first: we called this a couple of week ago. See this post.  Re-posting:

Yesterday I posted this:

Sweden and Wuhan flu: Sweden is getting a lot of positive press about how that country handled the coronavirus. When one actually sees the data, one gets another impression. If one has time to read only one article on Wuhan flu today, this would be the article. 

This is the meme: Sweden won the argument.

Now, today, from Breitbart (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/16/poland-labels-swedens-coronavirus-policy-darwinian/): Poland labels Sweden's coronavirus policy 'Darwinian.'

For those unfamiliar with the metonym, "Darwinian" in this case refers to "survival of the fittest." Poland is suggesting that Sweden simply let things go with regard to Wuhan flu to cull out the herd; establish "herd immunity" quickly; and, get past "this" as quickly as possible. Whether the country's goal was to have "better" statistics than the rest of the world, I don't know. I doubt this was some kind of international, Olympic-style competition. Whatever.

But the mainstream media picked up on this and the meme became Sweden "won the contest."

In fact, Sweden did not, by criteria set by the mainstream press: