> - Swedes keep on "trusting the government to do what they do as they know better", while it is unclear on what their trust is based
This is based on the Swedish belief that they are the smartest people in the world and that everyone else is dumb therefore their government's plan must be good and every other world government is just being hysterical
> I don't get it, if Twitter denied it what information could the Dutch police have to prove otherwise?
Anything that would establish the hack occurred even if Twitter didn't deny it, such as network logs of the attack.
They are saying essentially that they had evidence to prosecute for the hack except that they also had sufficient evidence that the attacker met the requirements to be exempt from prosecution under an ethical hacking rule. It seems a lot less likely that they’d lie than Twitter, perhaps at the behest of the Office of the President regarding security of an account that has legally been deemed an official outlet of the Presidency, would lie to cover up a breach of the account’s security.
The same thing happened in the US North East, NY, MA, CT, NJ -- the majority (e.g. over 2/3) of deaths are in long term care homes.
That is the problem to solve, lockdown or not, in most countries we have utterly failed to protect our most vulnerable people. In fact I'd go as far as arguing that lockdowns and restrictions for the general population have diverted attention and effort from protecting the LTC homes & the vulnerable.
Regardless, states other than NY also didn't prevent it getting in via staffers, visitors or delivery folks or however it got in there and have a similar, terrible LTC death toll.
As an engineer, if you gave me this problem, I'd secure every LTC home with 24hr police / national guard. All staff would be do 3 weeks on, 3 off, but while "on" (think oil rig workers), living on-site in trailers or [hm]otels, not going home every night (movies do this when filming on location; juries get sequestered for important trials, why can't we do this here?). When staff go on-shift, they must be isolated and then tested before being allowed to go onsite. Deliveries left on the loading dock and properly sanitized, and no visitors -- AT ALL. For Medical emergencies (local FD / EMTs), the resident & 1st responders would have to be isolated for triage, then taken off-site and go back through quarantine / testing to get back in.
It's totally doable and the cost is a heck of a lot less than an economic shutdown / lockdown, or the continued high death toll.
