Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 06/16/2026 8:09:49 PM PDT by Cronos
Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries didn't impose any lockdown restrictions – so was their decision the right one?
Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people
Five years later, the scientific studies and data have piled up, offering a detailed, long-term assessment of whether these countries were right to reject this most drastic of public health interventions.
Scientists have tried to answer that question. Ingeborg Forthun at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and researchers in other countries including Sweden published a study in May 2024 that compared excess deaths in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland during the first years of the pandemic. https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/34/4/737/7675929
While Sweden avoided strict government imposed controls, instead relying mainly on voluntary behavioural changes from is citizens, the other three nations imposed strict lockdowns in the early stages of the pandemic. Norway, Finland and Denmark closed schools and most other aspects of public life while also asking people to work from home, but they stopped short of confining people to their homes in the way other countries such as the UK did.
"The four countries have a comparable number of excess deaths when you account for the fact that population sizes differ," says Forthun. What lockdowns did affect, in part, was the timing of when spikes in excess deaths occurred. Of Norway's approach, Forthun adds: "We probably kept some older and vulnerable people alive for a longer period."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
You exactly described what I noticed with the article.
Don’t forget $oro$ et al.
Don’t treat everyone the same!
Lock down and isolate the elderly. Let everyone else interact and build up herd immunity. Children and young adults were at no risk from COVID. They should have been allowed to live their lives.
you make very good points - I forgot about that. Thanks for the correction
That didn't work. My SIL's elderly aunt died during the early weeks of Covid. The only treatment at the time was to stick that person in a ventilator when they turned blue. The aunt declined. The family did manage last goodbyes via a cell phone call.
Unfortunately, none of the lockdown politicians or enforcers have been executed or hunted down and killed.
Trust the BBC to want to bring back this nightmare.
South Carolina locked down for two weeks, then it was voluntary.
Like I responded to an article about how Brazil, stopped administering a dengue vax because 5 had dies and over 40 had severe reactions - out of 500K or so that h]got the jab:
“Just imagine the pain and suffering that could have been avoided if they had treated the toxic Covid jabs with the same caution. And treated symptoms instead of killing folks via unneeded intubations.
When my 74 year old wife was diagnosed with Covid, her doctor told her, “They have a new drug for that, but I don’t trust it, so here’s some prescriptions to treat your symptoms”...in 2 days she was feeling less pekid, in 4 days she was feeling much better and by day 8 she was over it.”
It doesn’t matter.
For example, let’s say a really great statistical study concluded that Singapore and Japan’s low crime and homicide rates were due to gun control, vs the US.
That doesn’t change that the right to self-defense using a bat, golf club, or over/under is a God-given right and trumps any utilitarian argument. Screw Japan and Singapore-I’ll take self-defense over low crime every day.
Same thing here. Civil rights were destroyed in 2020-2021. End of story.
Covid was the biggest pile of bullsh*t ever!
It was total nonsense from it’s start to it’s fizzle out and as far as I’m concerned every politician and healthcare advisor associated with this biggest hoodwinking of all time, should be rounded up and executed.
I know that sounds harsh, but how many people died waiting for cancer and other necessary life saving treatments while hospitals concentrated on helping out people with sniffles. And most of those listed as dead by Covid actually died from everything else but Covid.
The entire ruse cost our economy billions and the gouging the began in earnest at the start of Covid, continues on to this day causing grocery and other essential goods prices to be overinflated, unsustainable and unaffordable for most.
Tons of food is going to waste after being discarded daily by big chain grocery stores, and yet they’re still enjoying their biggest profits ever. It’s disgusting.
Who are they studying? Aren’t they all dead?
I was with a Young Lady throughout that time who’s Husband got sick and was Hospitalized. He was intubated,took a turn for the worst and Died. The Lady was Denied to Even Visit and the funeral like Wise was ruled out.
She Was inconsolable.
.
How To Fight IT ?
.
Good Question
But what happened here is Inhumane.
For a long time I saw the numbers of deaths in Italy and the hard working nurses and I really believed that a 3 week quarantine in an affected area would work.
then it expanded, and I still believed it would work.
I don’t remember when exactly I stopped believing it would work, but I freely admit that I completely fell for the story in 2020
Don’t think the dens came up with it; they just used it to their advantage. Never let a crisis go to waste as they say.
You Nailed It Amigo!
.
Hospitals
Schools
OutDoor Parks
Even Surfers were Hunted Down!
.
But RIOTS were encouraged.
My mother 98.5 years old and dying of colorectal cancer had to go to a critical care nursing facility in May 2021. For two weeks nobody was allowed to visit her.
We could stand outside her window and wave to her. Then we were allowed one visit per week for 2 hours. She was alone and afraid. Finally in the last week they just gave up and let me come everyday and stay longer than the two hours. She died on the 23rd day. It was a terrible thing and I carry a lot of guilt over it.
The Public was Frightened by the Media....
It Was a massive Hoax and FEAR was so Thick you could cut it with a Knife.
.
That’s just awful.
.
It was just as If we were transformed into a Twighlight Zone world.
.
We Should Never Forget these Tyrannical restrictions laid upon Us.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.