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Sweden should be compared to other Nordic countries with similar demographics etc. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/12/what-have-norway-...
Banning digital advertising feels like more of an obvious public good every day.
There's other really well written articles from PHDs about how their model literally would only work in Sweden.
The author is only bestseller of a book based on their experience not a perspective from someone trying to approach it like an academic as far as I can tell.
Sweden should be compared to other Nordic countries with similar demographics etc. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/12/what-have-norway-...
You need to compare number of cancer deaths (due to non-screening), and anything else that would have been preventative and now won't be.
You need to compare psychological cost of covid with lockdown versus no lockdown (schools, workplaces, etc.).
You need to compare all of the benefits of life without a lockdown not just the costs.
My personal feeling is that Sweden was too early to lift restrictions, but now everyone else is too late.
The history books will not be kind to those that supported lockdowns, nor should they be.
Sweden should be compared to other Nordic countries with similar demographics etc. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2020/12/what-have-norway-...
Whenever somebody compares US to a single Nordic country, it is all about an agenda and not to find things out.
Also: And only deaths are considered. It ignores that we did not know if there was any long term effects on people or if the hospital system would be overloaded if "If things had simply been left to run their course".
(The latter was the main consideration when Denmark closed down: not to avoid deaths, but to avoid hospitals to be overloaded)
Insane that a contagious disease directly killed over 50,000 young people (under age 50) in the usa alone and we are still debating if our lockdown response was disproportionate?
It’s simple - people were dying who should not normally be were and the medical community was overwhelmed - we needed to lockdown untill a we knew that an effective vaccine worked or the effective transmission rate declined, or the virus mutated into a safer variant
Wars and terrorism killed far less and the impact was far greater as well
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
Fact is that Johan Giesecke was completely wrong about almost every epidemiologically important property of SARS-CoV-2. I documented his delusions here already in April 2020: http://www.openias.org/swedens-covid19-strategy
Well regarding the Western response to COVID and “lockdowns” - Tell this story to doctors and nurses in wards where young people died gasping for breath (so many I personally know of) - of course we needed to lockdown Insane that a contagious disease directly killed over 50,000 young people (under age 50) in the usa alone and we are still debating if our lockdown response was disproportionate? It’s simple - people we…