Yes, I can only imagine the frustration you Simon, Hoi.Polloi and all the other skilled researchers here must be feeling and have been feeling for more than and decade(!) And Swedes and Scandinavians in general are very gullible. But I have at least some colleges and friends that are waking up. Mostly because I have this excellent site to direct them to. It is always darkest before dawn.
Some more on the Sthlm Tewwow Attack
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http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/ovade-d ... -av-malen/
Highlights:
The day before she practiced on a fictitious scenario in which a bomb was placed at Åhléns.
- When I heard what had happened, I could hardly believe it was true. It was just as we had practiced, she says.
Every time we kept training, something has happened
Was struck by the similarity of the training
Nurse Agneta Carlswärd Kjellin, 56, supported many anxious when she staffed emergency phone after Friday's suspected terrorist attack in Stockholm.
The day before she practiced on a fictitious scenario in which a bomb was placed at Åhléns.
- When I heard what had happened, I could hardly believe it was true. It was just as we had practiced, she says.
Last Thursday organized SLL a course for a group of supporters of crisis. There are doctors, psychologists, counselors, deacons, priests and nurses to support and answer questions during a major accident, natural disaster or an attack that affects the citizens.
The day after the training occurred the suspected terrorist attack in the heart of the city when a truck drove on several people, killing four before it crashed in Åhléns City.
- I was just waiting to be called in Friday. On the one hand, you want to be and do what you have just trained and contribute. But while such anguish before the first talks, says Agneta Carlswärd Kjellin, nurse and emergency supporter at St. George's Hospital.
Was struck by the similarity of the training
As she followed the reporting of the incident she was struck by the similarities with education.
- On Thursday, we simulated an explosion at Åhléns. It was a fictitious scenario with media reporting that someone planted a bomb in the Åhléns city - and then detonated it at Åhléns in Skärholmen, she says.
She called first on Sunday to answer questions troubled residents and to man the phone more week.
- We got all kinds of calls from people who were there on Drottninggatan, people who worked nearby and from those who were concerned that it will happen again. There were very many who called in.
Charlotte Therup Svedenlöf, licensed psychologist and head of the unit for crisis. Photo: Private
"Every time we kept training, something has happened"
- The exercise we have had in many, many years, we train crisis supporters to give a good crisis support over the phone. There is a training we've had in 17 years. It is about meeting people acutely. The course is very highly appreciated, says Charlotte Therup Svedenlöf, licensed psychologist and head of the unit for crisis and disaster psychology.
She says that it is not the first time that disasters occur in connection with the training:
- Every time we've stayed this course, something has happened in connection with it, even if it has not been in Sweden, she says:
- I was so thankful that we have such a great crisis of supporters in Stockholm County Council.