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How Sweden Proved the World Wrong About Lockdown
Spiked ^ | February 29, 2024 | Fredrik N G Andersson & Lars Jonung

Posted on 02/29/2024 9:42:13 PM PST by chickenlips

In 2020, countries across the world followed in the footsteps of China and locked down hard against Covid-19. Liberties were drastically curtailed. As was economic activity, forcing governments to borrow tens if not hundreds of billions of pounds each to keep businesses and furloughed workers afloat.

In Europe, one notable exception to this was Sweden. The Swedish government, despite facing heavy criticism, decided against imposing tight restrictions on social activity. The evidence now overwhelmingly suggests that Sweden made the right choice.

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Although we could not explore every possible impact of the various lockdown measures, our conclusions were straightforward: countries that imposed more lockdown measures did not experience lower excess death rates. In fact, Sweden had one of the lowest excess death rates towards the end of the pandemic, with fewer people dying compared with a normal pre-pandemic year.

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In fact, in our research, we could not find any correlation between lockdowns and excess deaths. Our results do not imply that every single lockdown measure was ineffective. Since all countries in Europe imposed a large number of social-distancing restrictions, including Sweden, we can only conclude that imposing full lockdown measures and ordering people to stay at home had little additional impact, if any. (In fact, our paper found a positive correlation between harsher lockdowns and excess deaths, though this was not statistically significant.)

The impact of lockdowns on mortality rates may have been inconsequential, but the economic effects were overwhelmingly negative. The more a country locked down, the larger the decline in GDP.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: covid; deficits; lockdowns; sweden
There is increasing discussion of the effects of the death jabs, but there seems to be avoidance of discussing why the US followed China's actions regarding Covid while ignoring long established public health protocols.
1 posted on 02/29/2024 9:42:13 PM PST by chickenlips
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To: chickenlips
There is increasing discussion of the effects of the death jabs, but there seems to be avoidance of discussing why the US followed China's actions regarding Covid while ignoring long established public health protocols.

The World Economic Forum, UN Agenda 2030 and the late Georgia Guidestones all advocate reducing the human population to 500,000,000.

The only way to reach that goal is to kill a few billion people.

Zbigniew Brzezinski encapsulated it in this quote:


2 posted on 02/29/2024 9:57:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: chickenlips

Sweden showed such wisdom about Covid. yet such dangerous naivete about which immigrants to allow in or permit to stay. Same with Germany. Bright, hardworking people in both lands, who are systematically allowing 45 IQ desert dwellers to take control of vast areas in each country.
Yes, Uncle Joe is now doing the same thing to we Americans.
Many still prefer pretending they don’t quite see it yet.
They will.


3 posted on 02/29/2024 10:04:57 PM PST by lee martell
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To: chickenlips

for me, the interesting thing about Sweden as an outlier was that once they decided not to follow the eu/uk/usa lemmings off the wuflu cliff, the public health trolls (more than a few on this site) immediately started spewing false stats and journolist reports about spiking Swedish death rates.

the hysteria was ridiculous and easily refuted by numbers published by the Swedes themselves.

the jab of course is it’s own subject and any stats after early 2021 have to take excess deaths and injuries from the jab into account as well. that includes Sweden.


4 posted on 02/29/2024 10:07:07 PM PST by dadfly
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To: chickenlips
--- "The impact of lockdowns on mortality rates may have been inconsequential, but the economic effects were overwhelmingly negative. The more a country locked down, the larger the decline in GDP. "

This seems the aim, from the beginning alongside the open gaming of a naive President Trump, who in this instance went along with his "advisors," many of whom were working against him behind the scenes.

The simple mortality rate calculation -- according to all standard definitions and using all "official" numbers -- showed throughout out the hysteria in the media and being spewed from governments around the world that this SARS CoV2 had a minor mortality rate of one tenth of one percent across the ENTIRE pandemic.

Sweden was correct, and trashed right here on FR forums for what has been proven to have been the proper response.

Hysteria is a horrid thing, all the more horrid when amplified by headlines worldwide over years. And more destructive than the "pandemic" economically.

5 posted on 03/01/2024 12:14:22 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: chickenlips

6 posted on 03/01/2024 1:23:40 AM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: chickenlips

The fatality rate was vastly overestimated, so the DC PTB decided to dust off the Event 201 pandemic mitigation plan and ignore public health protocols. The Event 201 plan turned out to be a disaster, so everybody pushing it wants to memory hole what happened.


7 posted on 03/01/2024 4:17:28 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: chickenlips

South Carolina closed down for two weeks only.


8 posted on 03/01/2024 6:48:52 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

I live in the blue state of Illinois. It depended where in the state one lived as to the severity of lockdowns. My take is rural areas just ignored all the nonsense from our governor. I live in a downstate metro area. My sense is Chicago was a lot more draconian as to covid mitigation rules. I was house setting in Cook county when Omicron hit and the county instituted Vax passes to get into bars and restaurants on Jan 1, 2022. That didn’t happen downstate. We did have have to put up with the ridiculous mitigation levels. If Covid got a little hot, the masks were ordered to be worn again and seating capacity was reduced, etc.


9 posted on 03/01/2024 7:43:27 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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10 posted on 03/02/2024 6:57:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: EVO X

I noticed two general areas where the COVID lockdowns, etc. were ignored for the most part.

Out in the boonies, and in the heavily immigrant parts of some small cities.

Places where officialdom couldn’t make much of a fuss, albeit for different reasons.


11 posted on 03/03/2024 4:27:09 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: P.O.E.

I am retired so I didn’t have to wear a mask for long periods, 15 minutes at most while shopping. There were a few business that ignored mask mandates so I took mine off. I remember the dirty looks in the early days of Covid walking to and from my car without a mask. Some people had genuine fear in their eyes..


12 posted on 03/03/2024 5:37:02 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X

Fear and loathing in their eyes - the scariest lesson from the COVID era was how easy it was to turn citizens against each other.


13 posted on 03/03/2024 8:09:33 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: P.O.E.

I just saw a younger gent wearing a P100 respirator while shopping today. Maybe he has health issues and needs to use one. That said, this is a first one I’ve seen in 4 years in my area...


14 posted on 03/03/2024 9:20:06 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: P.O.E.

I agree. At one point, Fauci suggested double masking and wearing googles. I don’t see many double maskers these days, but there are still a few that do...


15 posted on 03/03/2024 11:57:08 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: lee martell
Sweden showed such wisdom about Covid. yet such dangerous naivete about which immigrants to allow in or permit to stay.

Weird.

16 posted on 03/03/2024 11:59:52 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: EVO X

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/what-doctors-wish-patients-knew-about-double-masking

MAY 4, 2021 . 7 MIN READ

Still recommended by the AMA. At least they haven’t removed or corrected.


17 posted on 03/03/2024 12:08:58 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

My dentists were double masking during the height of Covid. I don’t recall them or their staff using N95 masks.


18 posted on 03/03/2024 4:23:46 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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