IMO the main reason for the failed COVID response in Sweden and elsewhere has been an obsessive focus on individual risk and the inability to perceive the pandemic at the system level. I try to flesh out these ideas a bit in this essay for @ROAR_Magazine. https://roarmag.org/essays/climate-catastrophe-covid-19/

I wonder if this misplaced emphasis on the individual—which is also evident in how we conceptualise climate change—is a feature of our neoliberal era, or something more fundamentally human. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals

Agnes Wold is a perfect example of this. She consistently fails to acknowledge societal risk, instead focussing narrowly on what she perceives to be individual risk. Tragically, she gets the individual risk wrong as well, and gives really dangerous advice. https://twitter.com/Kattis667/status/1340433516811661312