The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy
telegraph.co.uk

> The death rate was between three and four times that of Denmark, and nearly 10 times those of Finland and Norway - suggesting Swedes died that didn’t need to.

> And Dr Bhatt does not think another, non-Nordic country such as Britain could have copied Sweden’s policies and got the same results.

> With about 23 people per square kilometre, Sweden has about a tenth of the population density of the UK, while about half of Swedish households comprise just one person - a major factor in local transmission.

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- Economy suffered the same as neighbors, and the government was quick to help big companies like Volvo (which immediately paid dividends to shareholders), but small businesses couldn't get their voices heard (even not-so-small businesses like airports)

Alternative history re-writers already hail this as the greatest achievement ever.

They are getting far fewer cases and deaths than many other areas now, and have been for many weeks.

Couple that with the not-lost social interactions and economy etc, and the fact that this was always (more or less) every country’s pandemic plan before we changed our mind for covid, and it becomes a troubling indicator that our entire response may have been irrational.