Comments by "Cyberfunk" (@cyberfunk3793) on "The Wondering Englishman" channel.

@TheWonderingEnglishman Sweden is obviously not a socialist country and was not that before either. They have been a capitalist country with free market for ages and having had social democrats in charge does not negate that. Saying that Sweden didn't suffer from the pandemic as much because they didn't lock down is false, their per capita death rates are for example about 3 times higher than in Norway and also much higher than in their other neighbors Finland and Denmark that locked down. Their currency lost value at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 but recovered since. Although it floats somewhat freely, the central bank tries to keep it somewhat stable against the Euro and it has been trading against it at a rate between roughly 9 to 11 for a long time so it's also incorrect to say their currency showed some strenght or benefit compared to the Euro in the recent years.
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