{"id":7923,"date":"2020-06-02T05:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2020-06-02T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:03:06","slug":"give-sweden-a-b-in-coronavirus-101-aier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/02\/give-sweden-a-b-in-coronavirus-101-aier\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Sweden a B- in Coronavirus 101 \u2013 AIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The course Coronavirus 101 is, really, ongoing. Our grading of Sweden\u2019s performance is meant to be suggestive.<br \/>\nWe might say that there are three principal components of the overall grade in Coronavirus 101: The midterm exam is the entire polity\u2019s handling of the elderly care challenge. The term paper is the government\u2019s pandemic policy; that is, the extent and duration of locking down the life of society. The final exam is the government\u2019s policies dealing with the social and economic fallout; policies such as bailouts, extended unemployment benefits, \u201cstimulus,\u201d and so on. Other actions, too, matter, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atr.org\/rules\">waiving<\/a>\u00a0obstructive restrictions, avoiding \u201cprice gouging\u201d folly, smartly pursuing therapies and vaccine development, and so on.<br \/>\nFor the three main components we give, if somewhat tentatively, Sweden a D on elderly care, an A on lockdown, and a C on economic-fallout policies. Overall, Sweden gets a B- in the course. There won\u2019t be many polities with an overall course grade higher than Sweden\u2019s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/give-sweden-a-b-in-coronavirus-101\/\">Give Sweden a B- in Coronavirus 101 \u2013 AIER<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The course Coronavirus 101 is, really, ongoing. Our grading of Sweden\u2019s performance is meant to be suggestive. We might say that there are three principal components of the overall grade in Coronavirus 101: The midterm exam is the entire polity\u2019s handling of the elderly care challenge. The term paper is the government\u2019s pandemic policy; that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/02\/give-sweden-a-b-in-coronavirus-101-aier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give Sweden a B- in Coronavirus 101 \u2013 AIER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}