Anders Tegnell is leaving his post as Chief Epidemiologist of Sweden to take up a role at the World Health Organisation. Reuters has the story.
The man who became the face of Sweden’s no-lockdown pandemic policy, Anders Tegnell, is stepping down as chief epidemiologist to take up a role at the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Swedish Health Agency said on Wednesday.
Tegnell, whose almost daily news conferences had Swedes glued to their screens for much of the pandemic, will become a senior expert at a WHO group tasked with coordinating the Covid vaccine response between health and vaccine organisations.
Tegnell proved a polarising figure at the Health Agency. He was forced to have police protection after he and his family received death threats but his face has also featured on T-shirts with the slogan “In Tegnell we trust”. Some people even got Tegnell tatoos…
When much of the world scrambled to lock down as the coronavirus spread like wildfire in winter and spring 2020, Sweden stood out by opting for mild and voluntary measures. It kept schools open while most restaurants, bars and other businesses never shut. Mask were never recommended.
Tegnell, 65, argued that lockdowns were not sustainable and that voluntary measures could achieve the same results without damaging the trust between authorities and the public.
I hope he wasn’t pushed out in Sweden following the official inquiry, which while affirming his general no-lockdown approach, also criticised the lack of earlier action on masks, shops and restaurants and, pointedly, criticised the Government for following his advice too closely.
Sweden has recommended against Covid vaccines for children under 11, so perhaps Tegnell will take some of that scepticism about the safety profile of these vaccines to his new role. We might also hope he will be a sceptical influence in any development of future pandemic guidance to avoid lockdowns and other draconian measures being normalised.
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Perhaps they’ve taken him in for a course of indoctrination.
I was in Sweden in December & January when new restrictions and regular press conferences were being held. I did not see Dr. Anders Tegnell once. His WHO appointment is not really of a surprise as I remember thinking he had definitely ticked their box on the “fantastic vaccines” during his second interview with Freddie Sayers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRR5zZ0I0s
Prof Karol Sakora once worked for WHO although I believe that he left the body due to disagreements over its direction. . Anders Tegnell’s appointment is to be welcomed so long as he does not become isolated. He was about to retire from his job in Sweden anyway. WHO has shown a little discernment in its appointment process for a change. We should be mindful of who WHO might have appointed if he had not put himself forward.
another bites the dust…
i you cannot fight them, have them join.
Let’s hope he is able to bring a bit of measured scepticism to the WHO (a mostly political organisation) and counter The Science(tm) with Science.
I suspect he will be outnumbered!
This looks like a case of the WHO neutralising opposition buying future conformity.
Tegnell’s appointment smells suspiciously like a sop to opponents of the nefarious plan to transfer power over future pandemic policies from individual nations to the much-criticised World Health Organisation (WHO)
For weeks, representatives of 194 UN member states have met in Geneva to negotitate away their historical health sovereignty to an un-elected and arguably corrupt and incompetent bureaucracy financially behoven to Bill Gates and Big Pharma.
Under the terms of a binding “international agreement on the prevention and control of pandemics”, national leaders would in future be legally obliged to impose WHO “solutions” – including lockdowns and/or mandatory mass vaccination – whether they and the electorates they are meant to serve want them or not.
WEF acolyte (and enthusiastic “Build Back Better” choristor) Boris Johnson actually called for the unaccountable WHO to be handed control months ago, with scarcely a mention by the toothless UK media “watchdogs’.
If passed, this egregious power grab would represent a new world order for health and a stepping stone towards the “global governance” goal of the WEF/UNWorld Bank-led “Great Reset” – which the dying legacy media, on life support from government and Big Pharma sponsorship, pathetically continues to call a… Read more »
Better the enemy inside the tent pissing out. The WHO’s global pandemic and digital ID plan is due for completion by 2024 when all 194 member states cede their health sovereignty to this unelected, CCP influenced organisation – keep your eyes on what our Minister for Health is signing. Tegnell will never be seen or heard from again in the media.
This is a really worrying development. Anders will be bullied and silenced when he gets to his position at WHO. I believe this corrupt organisation needs to be disbanded and those who have funded it need to be investigated. That includes UK Government, The Gates Foundation and USA Government. There has been much skulduggery over the years this disgraceful organisation has been in place. A NWO concept that needs to go.
Keep your friends close….
This will be so they can corrupt him.
Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer (Machiavelli)
If you can’t beat ’em. . .
Still a hero of 2020 and there were very few of them around.
Can you imagine where we would have been without the Swedish data?
We might hope, but he’s probably took the ‘shilling’.
“We might also hope he will be a sceptical influence in any development of future pandemic guidance to avoid lockdowns and other draconian measures being normalised.”
Why are future “pandemics” and their plans for, seemingly common features of health discussions nowadays? It’s almost like these things were as common as the common cold.
Any ideas Billy G?
“It’s almost like these things were”…planned.
Why the collective amnesia. This site has lost the way. The swing parks were locked up. The children were masked in class . The figures were manipulated. People have been injected to keep their jobs and now they don’t need to be. Where is the retribution. Where is the payback. Oh. Let’s all look over there at Ukraine and worry about the price of petrol. No way. The experts need held to account. Where is the push back. Where is Bruce Reynolds? I can’t believe this site is adopting ‘i told you so’ attitude. We need to prosecute those who took our freedom. And when I see people still rubbing the hands to stop a respiratory virus, and wearing masks alone in a car, I don’t berate them, I despair that the y have been manipulated by a bunch of pricks. Where is the payback? The whole thing was a shitshiw but now it’s over/ there’s a war 9n, it’s all ok? Fuck that.
Bloody dead right. Bastards.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/01/mandatory-covid-jabs-dropped-nhs-staff-england-march-health-social-care-workers-law-vaccinated-sajid-javid?fr=operanews
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60681288
Ivermectin has been distributed by the WHO to infected areas as a treatment for parasitic infections for over 30 years. Especially in certain African countries, Mexico and India, it has been confirmed to be safe to distribute directly to people. In addition, ivermectin has been reported to suppress the invasion of SARS-CoV-2 into cells and inhibit replication. You can get your ivm by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
In the face of a virus that is overall about as deadly as the flu, he believes in social distancing, reducing human and economic activity and in using rushed, experimental vaccines.
Swedes, like the Japanese, are an obedient bunch is all.
For all I know he may believe in Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer
But so far as I am aware, he stood fast against mandates enforcing all those stupid things, especially for the young.
So I suggest he deserves a fair amount of respect.
Clearly far more than the King and the Government in Sweden.
He consistently rejected the mediaeval superstition of lockdown.
That is more than good enough.
Is this to ensure he is “on message” the next time the psychopaths posing as our representatives try the pandemic stunt?
Who (sorry) did the Swedes replace him with?
No, Who’s on first.
Sodium azide detected on rapid antigen swabs.
Well, having become increasingly cynical over the last few years (and decades) I just hope he has not been bought.
p.s. Looking at some of the other comments, I see I am not completely alone!
The money too good to resist, Anders?
So he should have imposed pointless and damaging measures which made no discernible difference to the spread of The Deadly Virus in any of the many countries which imposed them. Right…
LMAO !
Mark Lynas changed his tune on GMOs and now pushes the oxymoronically-named-because-it’s-Gates-funded ‘Cornell Alliance for Science’. Anders Tegnell might well have followed the same path.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/09/mark-lynas-truth-treachery-gm
Yanis Varoufakis, when Greek finance minister in 2010 backed down in the face of the EU demands. I remember reading (in a Guardian article I think – can’t find the reference), when asked why, he said “I didn’t want to die”.
Everyone has their price and, regretably, for some that might mean their life. History shows that psychopathy knows no limits. That’s the power of lack of empathy and lack of moral compass. The medico-industrial complex is famous for both.
‘Anders Tegnell Lands Job at WHO’, and is immediately enrolled on a course of ‘reconditioning’.
Tegnell was likely made an offer he couldn’t refuse and perhaps it was not all about money.
Exactly. It was either ‘work under the thumb of the WHO’ or ‘you’ll never work again’…..
This will only be a good thing if Gates discovers a conscience and goes off to live in a monastery and the current head is retired.
It is humility that he sorely lacks.
He is one of the few “experts” appointed by governments who admitted some of his worst mistakes (letting Covid into old peoples homes, closing colleges but not schools of course) and making apologies at the time for those mistakes.
Seems to have enormously more humility that the malicious red-nosed clowns foisted on most populations, notably UK
That’s about as likely as Microsoft releasing a version of Windows that isn’t full of bugs.
Gates discovers a conscience
ROTFLMAO. That’s going to happen shortly after rivers start flowing from the sea to their springs.
We are told: ‘Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.’
But I want to apply profanity and abuse to Mr Gates, not to this forum.
There’s a common view that the WHO went off the rails, i.e. was taken over by undesirable people 20-25 years ago. It worked well before that.
I’m going to look on the bright side and hope that he’ll bring more trustworthiness to the WHO. They certainly seem to have lost a lot of that since Gates bought them.