According to a recent report from The Local SE, a mother told a local Swedish news station that her 13 year-old son was asked to remove his face mask in class. The student refused to remove the face mask and the school said he could not attend class until it was removed. The mother is now complaining to the local municipality that something must be done.
Linus, the 13 year-old student, decided to wear a mask when he returned to class at the British International School Stockholm (BISS) in Danderyd, outside Stockholm. The school teaches 550 students ages 3-17.
I decided to wear a mask to school. The first lesson [goes] fine with it on. But then in the beginning of lesson two, the teacher asks me to take my mask off, and I of course say that I didn’t want to because of the coronavirus.
Email forwarded to The Local SE
The mother, Sarah Jefford, a wine educator who grew up in Sweden had to pick up the child as Linus was forced into an isolation room for three hours before she arrived.
I was fuming. I am deeply shocked by these measures and find it unacceptable. It should be a matter of choice. I don’t think one should be prevented from wearing a mask.
Sarah Jefford
After spending several days at home, Linus and his parents decided it is better for him not to miss more schooling than worry about the mask. He returned to class yesterday.
According to the report, Jefford said that the school had showed little understanding or flexibility, particularly as it had shifted children to distance learning for the two weeks leading up to the sportlov school break last week, following a coronavirus outbreak in which a number of staff were infected (24 staff members and nine cases among students in the older year groups, according to an email the school sent to parents, seen by The Local).
She has contacted the local municipality but her calls have gone ignored.
The school’s headmaster, Carl Hudson, explained to The Local that they are following the advice provided to them by Stockholm region’s infectious diseases unit, Smittskydd Stockholm.
In the current recommendations from Smittskydd Stockholm it is explicitly stated that they do not recommend masks in the classroom environment at the moment.
As we interpret it, it is their assessment that, at the moment, the benefit of masks, which they recommend elsewhere, is not large enough to outweigh the downside of reduced learning and communication in the classroom.
Masks are only recommended for public transportation in Sweden.
For more information, check out the rest of the report here:
Masking Hazing
But the population of Sweden as a whole seems to not like the masking at all. As a matter of fact, some Swedes are openly mocking and laughing at those that wear a mask.
Another report from The Local SE documents what some Swedes and foreigners have experienced.
According to excerpts from that report:
The supermarket was almost empty, but Eva noticed a man looking at her and standing close to her on a few occasions. When she went to pay for her food, she said he stood just a few centimetres behind her, not holding any items and ignoring the ‘Keep your distance’ markers on the floor.
I asked him to move behind the safe line, but he refused and starts laughing and calling me an idiot. At that moment his wife comes, grabs the man by the arm to put him behind the line, but he refuses and pushes his wife. She did manage to move him closer to the line. I told him that I’m not putting my groceries out of my basket until he keeps the distance, he laughs.
Eva took out her phone and started recording a video seen by The Local, in which she asks the man in Swedish to keep his distance, pointing at the markings, and he says “I am keeping distance” while remaining in front of the line. She says the man then called her an “idiot”, a “clown”, and then started commenting on the fact she came from another country, while staff at the supermarket did not intervene.
I told him I’m Swedish too, then he laughs and keeps insulting me, then I have had enough and I said that Sweden is the country full of idiots because they refuse to keep distance. The guy at the checkout shouts at me, not at the man, and I say I’m not coming back [to the shop] if that’s the way they treat people that try to keep distance. The guy at the till shouts and says ‘you are not welcome here’.
I have been living here for thirteen years, I have the Swedish nationality and for the first time I’m seriously considering leaving the country.
Eva’s correspondence with The Local
A PhD student who is Hispanic with Middle-Eastern ancestry, was wearing a mask on the commuter train to university when she was verbally harassed by a Swedish woman.
As soon as she saw me she looked annoyed, then she came and shouted something in Swedish I couldn’t understand. When I said I didn’t speak Swedish, she got out her phone and showed me a collection of images of starving children wearing face masks and symbols of communism, which was on a Facebook page. She kept speaking Swedish in an aggressive manner and I was nervous.
She shouted that I was a ‘stupid woman’, I think her English was limited so she couldn’t say more and she said more stuff in Swedish. Eventually she left and started hitting herself in the head. I didn’t think she’d have the physical strength to attack me, but it was all very disturbing and awkward.
A 37-year-old from Spain, who has lived in Stockholm for over seven years, had had a similar experience. While she had not personally experienced harassment, she felt she was treated as if she was doing something wrong when she wore her mask.
What worried her most was when people working in medical care behaved this way.
The 37-year-old, who is pregnant, went to hospital in late April after suffering a foot injury and being advised to go to the emergency department by the 1177 helpline. Due to her pregnancy and her concerns that a hospital could be a high-risk environment for spreading infection, she wore a face mask.
All the nurses I had contact with were wearing no protective equipment, not even those receiving the patients initially. The first nurse asked if it was my ankle [that was the problem], why was I wearing a face mask. I said I am pregnant and was scared. And she said ‘scared of what? Everything?’ I could tell she was upset by her tone of voice.
The report further mentions that primarily those that were not White, especially got the bulk of the attacks. An Asian woman recounted how a group of teenagers surrounded her and calling her names such as “Corona” and “China Virus,” and coughing in her face. Another Chinese couple reported they were physically attacked for wearing masks.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Someone pinch me. Am I dreaming? People that have not lost all common sense and logic? It almost sounds like a legend, an old folk tale of sorts, that a nation’s government views the masks and lockdowns as being pointless, and the people, by and large, are not tolerating it and those buying into the nonsense.
The report from The Local had its progressive slant on it of course referring to these various acts as xenophobic, racist, white supremacy, and acting upon right-wing conspiracies.
And while physical violence may not be the answer in some instances, it just shows that many of the people have not bought into the propaganda they have seen around them, and are laughing up a storm at how stupid people look with their masks on. I am glad these people are calling out the nonsense. The Swedes got it right: they know the masks are pointless and are not doing anything to help prevent getting sick. The Swedish equivalent to Fauci has come out and publicly said that mask wearing is pointless.
The WinePress has explained, however, the nation’s non-masking goes further than the obvious fact they are useless. We explain in detail in our report “The REAL Reason Sweden Did Not Lockdown.”
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So. Much. YES! If only all reports could be like this!