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Emanuel Karlsten
Personal blog · emanuelkarlsten.sepoliticsdata
Emanuel Karlsten's personal blog at emanuelkarlsten.se covers politics and data. Since 2019, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Emanuel Karlsten is a Swedish journalist whose blog posts analyse Swedish Covid death statistics and health-authority emails, plus Swedish and EU politics; HN readers cite them as sourced data on Sweden's pandemic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Journalistik om det som inte funnit annan plats
Most-linked posts?
- /number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during-the-pandemic-compared-to-previous-years-mortality/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-10-24
- /tegnell-mejlen-sa-fick-flockimmuniteten-faste-hos-folkhalsomyndigheten/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-25
- /more-swedes-died-in-one-month-1993-and-2000-compared-to-april-2020-why/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
What Hacker News says?
And those that supposedly oppose it just happen to fail to act in line with that position. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/mp-och-v-rostade-fel-om-k... https://emanuelkarlsten.se/vansterpartiet-om-varfor-de-stott... Or they opposed it before the EU elections and then switched immediately afterwards.
Comment linking /vansterpartiet-om-varfor-de-stottade-chat-control-det-skedde-en-miss/
on “Chat Control proposal fails again after public opposition”> During the 15th week of the year, we saw the highest death rate in Sweden this millenium. A total number of 2505 people, 358 a day, passed away. Not since the first week of year 2000 that many people have died in Sweden. The 14th and 16th week of 2020 is third and fourth respectively on that same list. The month of April is the deadliest in Sweden since the 1990s with 10 458 deaths. You have to go back to December…
Comment linking /number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during-the-pandemic-compared-to-previous-years-mortality/
on “Open Letter from Facebook Content Moderators”Not a scientific article, but this blog post gives some numbers for Sweden: https://emanuelkarlsten.se/more-swedes-died-in-one-month-199... . One big question would be why they chose April 2020 as the comparison point rather than May or June -- did the number of deaths per month in Sweden actually drop? (I haven't read the article closely, and don't have a horse in this race --- I just thought it was apropos. Feel f…
Comment linking /more-swedes-died-in-one-month-1993-and-2000-compared-to-april-2020-why/
on “Sweden: higher Covid-19 death rate while failing to collect on economic gains”No more deaths in Sweden this year than previous years. Our hospitals already suffered from lines long enough for people to die before getting care. Waiting in line is always the result of socialist government monopolies, and this was the case before COVID as well. https://emanuelkarlsten.se/number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during...
Comment linking /number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during-the-pandemic-compared-to-previous-years-mortality/
on “How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time”"During the 15th week of the year, we saw the highest death rate in Sweden this millenium. " [0] Statistics are just so hard to interpret and translate into a narrative that headlining a single data point is often misleading. I'm not interested enough to dive into this particular issue so I'm still not sure which claim is "true". [0] https://emanuelkarlsten.se/number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during...
Comment linking /number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during-the-pandemic-compared-to-previous-years-mortality/
on “September 2020 least deadly month ever in Sweden”They have colour coded buttons: https://i1.wp.com/emanuelkarlsten.se/wp-content/uploads/2019... Source: https://emanuelkarlsten.se/03/13-ledamoter-tryckte-fel-i-den...
Comment linking /03/13-ledamoter-tryckte-fel-i-den-avgorande-rostningen/
on “Article 13 gets legalized because Sweden pushed the wrong voting button”I very much understand that Sweden could have done better in response to the pandemic, but I feel that there are a lot of points where the paper is disingenuous. > During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. As I understand it, the public health ministry avoided lockdowns partly because it argued it is a short-term strategy and partly because they did not…
Comment linking /tegnell-mejlen-sa-fick-flockimmuniteten-faste-hos-folkhalsomyndigheten/
on “Evaluation of science advice during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden”Comparing the French and the Swedish numbers seem to indicate that the virus ran rampant in France for a shorter period, while it was less severe but was active over a twice as long period in Sweden. To me it is a bit of a mystery why France, who arguably did a lot to contain the virus, ended up with a more or less identical result as Sweden did. Sweden: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr..…
Comment linking /more-swedes-died-in-one-month-1993-and-2000-compared-to-april-2020-why/
on “Covid-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse”Ok, the article actually is in Sweden's worst month for covid (April) it was better than 2000 and 1994. This also talks about May - https://emanuelkarlsten.se/swedens-two-corona-months-are-not...
Comment linking /swedens-two-corona-months-are-not-more-deadly-than-the-flu-of-the-90s-but-that-does-not-mean-that-everything-is-normal/
on “How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?”To be entirely accurate, even though the Swedish health authorities have used weasel words to avoid calling the strategy herd-immunity in public, in private emails and internal correspondence their true motivation is very clear. Very thoroughly documented by the respected Swedish journalist Emanuel Karlsten here: (in Swedish) https://emanuelkarlsten.se/tegnell-mejlen-sa-fick-flockimmun... Edit: Just gonna add that d…
Comment linking /tegnell-mejlen-sa-fick-flockimmuniteten-faste-hos-folkhalsomyndigheten/
on “The false promise of herd immunity for Covid-19”Using government force to limit freedom of people for “safety” - as if government existed to be served, rather than to serve and protect the rights of free citizens. In Sweden where we have no lockdown or similar there are no more deaths this year than other years, clearly showing that forcing people to lock down is not only immoral, but also inefficient. Article in English but statistics from the public statistics…
Comment linking /number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during-the-pandemic-compared-to-previous-years-mortality/
on “Bill Gates warns Covid lockdowns could drag on into 2022”