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1 posted on 06/04/2020 8:50:31 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Meatspace

Flaws? The article describes a complete failure.


2 posted on 06/04/2020 8:53:24 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Meatspace

Well, let’s compare “fatality rates” over a longer period and get a better/truer picture of which approach(es) work best.


3 posted on 06/04/2020 8:53:59 AM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT.)
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To: Meatspace

He gave the people of Sweden more freedom. He did not stop them from doing social distancing and wearing masks as necessary.

And doing those things - if and when necessary - is not just a responsibility of those who are not so vulnerable, it is a personal responsibility of those who are more vulnerable as well as a professional responsibility for those who care for more vulnerable people. Doing any of those things does not require a government making folks do them. People can protect themselves if they need and desire to, and people concerned about others, and unsure of their own status, can be protective towards those they must be in close contact with. With freedom YOU get to make choices.

Swedish folks made their individual choices. THEY could have chosen better, apparently.

I don’t think the Swedish people blame the government too much.


5 posted on 06/04/2020 9:00:40 AM PDT by Wuli (Get)
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To: Meatspace

Freedom is never a mistake.


6 posted on 06/04/2020 9:03:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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“It’s all Bullsh*t” – 3 Leaks that Sink the Covid Narrative!:
May 31, 2020

In recent days a series of leaks across the globe have further shown the “official line” on coronavirus does not hold water.

The science of the coronavirus is not disputed. It is well documented and openly admitted:

Most people won’t get the virus.
Most of the people who get it won’t display symptoms.
Most of the people who display symptoms will only be mildly sick.
Most of the people with severe symptoms will never be critically ill.
And most of the people who get critically ill will survive.
This is borne out by the numerous serological studies which show, again and again, that the infection fatality ratio is on par with flu.

There is no science – and increasingly little rational discussion – to justify the lockdown measures and overall sense of global panic.

It’s always good to get official acknowledgement of the truth, even if it has to be leaked.

Here are three leaks showing that those in power knew that the coronavirus poses no threat, and in no way justifies the lockdown that is going to destroy the livelihoods of so many.

1. “IT’S ALL BULLSHIT!”
On May 26th Dr Alexander Myasnikov, Russia’s head of coronavirus information, gave an interview to former-Presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak in which he apparently let slip his true feelings.

Believing the interview over, and the camera turned off, Myasnikov said:

It’s all bullshit […] It’s all exaggerated. It’s an acute respiratory disease with minimal mortality. Why has the whole world been destroyed? That I don’t know,”

2. “COVID-19 CANNOT BE DESCRIBED AS A GENERALLY DANGEROUS DISEASE”
According to an e-mail leaked to Danish newspaper Politiken, the Danish Health Authority disagree with their government’s approach to the coronavirus. They cover it in two articles here and here (For those who don’t speak Danish, thelocal.dk have covered the story too).

There’s a lot of interesting information there, not least of which is the clear implication that politicians appear to be pressing the scientific advisors to overstate the danger (they did the same thing in the UK), along with the decision of some civil servants to withhold data from the public until after the lockdown had been extended.

But by far the most important quote is from a March 15th e-mail [our emphasis]:

The Danish Health Authority continues to consider that covid-19 cannot be described as a generally dangerous disease, as it does not have either a usually serious course or a high mortality rate,”

On March 12th the Danish parliament passed an emergency law which – among many other things – decreased the power of the Danish Health Authority, demoting it from a “regulatory authority” to just an “advisory” one.

3. “A GLOBAL FALSE ALARM”
Earlier this month, on May 9th, a report was leaked to the German alternate media magazine Tichys Einblick titled “Analysis of the Crisis Management”.

The report was commissioned by the German department of the interior, but then its findings were ignored, prompting one of the authors to release it through non-official channels.

The fall out of that, including attacks on the authors and minimising of the report’s findings, is all very fascinating and we highly recommend this detailed report on Strategic Culture.
We’re going to focus on just the reports conclusions, including [our emphasis]:

The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.

The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.

During the Corona crisis the State has proved itself as one of the biggest producers of Fake News.

After being attacked in the press, and suspended from his job, the leaker and other authors of the report released a joint statement, calling on the government to respond to their findings.

If the current crisis was being approached rationally by all parties, these leaks would seal the debate.

Evidence is piling up that the people in charge knew, from the very beginning, that the virus was not dangerous.

The question remaining is: Why are these leaks happening now?


8 posted on 06/04/2020 9:07:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( If the reason you're wearing a mask is to protect me, stay at home. If you're sick, stay at home!)
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RE: Man behind Sweden’s voluntary coronavirus lockdown admits plan’s flaws

I see, and the men behind the total lockdown in other European Countries and in New York City ( a population almost the size of Sweden ) do not admit to their plan’s flaws... therefore, what follows?

That the European Country’s and NYC’s plans had no flaws and are considered successes?


10 posted on 06/04/2020 9:16:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Meatspace
At 43 fatalities per 100,000, it has far surpassed neighboring countries such as Denmark and Norway, which have imposed tougher stay-at-home orders.

As of June 4th:

Spain: 57.0 deaths per 100,000
UK: 56.6 deaths per 100,000
Italy: 55.2 deaths per 100,000
France: 44.2 deaths per 100,000
Sweden: 43.6 deaths per 100,000
United States: 31.6 deaths per 100,000.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#coronavirus-country-profiles

11 posted on 06/04/2020 9:16:49 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Meatspace

This is BS....Sweden’s actual mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 people) is less than many countries that locked down. That is all that matters.


13 posted on 06/04/2020 9:36:12 AM PDT by oil_dude
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I think is is not the truth. They are not the highest deaths per million in the world. Not close. And he said they could have done a better job with old folks homes. Sweden is not at all regretting keeping their economy open. They now have the best economy of Europe. This article is fake news.


14 posted on 06/04/2020 9:40:39 AM PDT by poinq
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And which plan, or even any government program of any kind ever, was flawless?


15 posted on 06/04/2020 9:41:39 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Not bad at all. Just over 430 per million is a nothing burger. Better than New York. What is missing in all this discussions is blooming perspective.


16 posted on 06/04/2020 11:40:37 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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Take a knee, Sweden... take it now!!!

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The aggregate Deaths/Confirmed from two days ago: June 2nd.

France @ 15.5%

Italy @ 14.4%

UK @ 14.1%

Sweden @ 11.6%

Spain @ 11.3%

US @ 5.8%


18 posted on 06/04/2020 12:49:01 PM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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