op-ed from The Australian is behind paywall, but Sanjeev has posted following link, where you can enlarge text & read in full, with Swedish data:
30 Dec: The Australian: Swedish Covid-19 data exposes our fatal lockdown hysteria
by Sanjeev Sabhlok
Three months ago I resigned as an economist in the Vitorian Department of Treasury and Finance to protest against disproportionate public heath measures by (Victorian Premier) Daniel Andrews that had led to a police state...
As I have written previously, this pandemic is not the Spanish flu. Data is now telling us that is is not even in the league of the Hong Kong flu.
In May, modellers had said Sweden would experience more than 100,000 additional deawths from COVID this year, with 96,000 additional deaths by July if lockdowns were not imposed...
https://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/Op-ed-TheAustralian-30December2020.png
from a summary Sanbyjeev:
1) Sweden’s 2-yr average death rate will likely be the second lowest in ten years. This has been a “bad flu” but less lethal than the Hong Kong flu.
2) Lockdowns have only been used once in 500 years: for Ebola, and were not effective even for it. “When lockdowns are rejected by the science even for a lethal virus such as Ebola, the idea of lockdowns being applied for a flu-like virus does not arise”.
3) Vaccine can be helpful for those >75. Compulsion would amount to the same intellectual and spiritual cowardice that we’ve seen throughout 2020.
FINALLY: when folks compare COVID with earlier diseases/flu etc., please adjust for the world’s population at the time.
for example:
Wikipedia: The Spanish flu infected around 500 million people, about one-third of the world’s population...
death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million...
therefore, for all those in FakeNewsMSM/politicians/health officials saying COVID-19 is the worst pandemic in a century/since the Spanish flu, please note:
2.5 billion people would have to be infected by covid; between 100 million and 500 million would have to die from COVID.
Thanks for the data.
It appears that the ChiComs with the help of the Pope, UK idiots, Aussie liars and our liars like Fauci are destroying the economies and structure of our countries.
CDC: 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus) (Spanish flu)
The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about ***675,000 occurring in the United States...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
US population 1918: 103 million
therefore, adjuted for population, equivalent US deaths from COVID for USA would be 2,160,000 deaths.
15 Dec: ABC: US COVID-19 deaths top 300,000 just as vaccinations begin
By ADAM GELLER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press
“The numbers are staggering — the most impactful respiratory pandemic that we have experienced in over 102 years, since the iconic 1918 Spanish flu,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, said days before the milestone...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-covid-19-deaths-top-300000-vaccinations-begin-74723337
