Posted on 10/17/2020 8:03:51 PM PDT by george76
Instead of rebuking Sweden and states such as South Dakota who exposed the failure of lockdowns, we should be thanking them.
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Sweden’s decision to take a “lighter touch” to the coronavirus pandemic—foregoing strict lockdowns and relying primarily on social responsibility to encourage social distancing—has made it a lighting rod for criticism.
Many commentators claimed Sweden was behaving recklessly and selfishly by refusing to enforce an economic lockdown
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Though its per capita death rate remained well below European neighbors such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Spain—each of which enforced strict lockdowns—Sweden became, as one CBS report claimed, “an example of how not to handle COVID-19.”
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Sweden was coming under fire had less to do with the results of its policies than the nature of its policies. There were far better “cautionary tale” examples than Sweden—such as Belgium, a nation with a similar population whose per capita death toll is 50 percent higher than Sweden’s.
Unlike Sweden, however, Belgium had a strict lockdown that, as the BBC reported back in May, was enforced with “drones in parks and fines for anyone breaking social distancing rules.” But nobody cared about Belgium because they had followed the lockdown script.
Months later, Sweden’s decision to avoid lockdowns only looks better.
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the World Health Organization and thousands of physicians and public health officials are now arguing against the use of lockdowns as a method of taming the virus.
The reason for this is obvious. While the harms of lockdowns are clear—trillions of dollars in economic losses, widespread mental health deterioration, and social decay—there is no compelling evidence that lockdowns reduced COVID-19 deaths or the spread of the virus.
Musk: Sweden Was Right.
The results of Sweden’s strategy become clearer with every passing week. And more people are beginning to notice.
(Excerpt) Read more at fee.org ...
True. As unpopular as Barky the Dogeater is on Freerepublic, I believe his ignoring the 2009 Bird flu was the best thing for this country, and I think we should’ve ignored this as well.....take care of those who got it bad, treat them with Hydroxychlorquine and zinc, and just move on.
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There is no compelling evidence that lockdowns reduced COVID-19 deaths or the spread of the virus.
There it is.
Lockdowns increased the number of deaths ..
‘Sweden Was Right’
Duh.
Well my view is virus’s are going to do what they do.....spread, and there’s no way you can tell who it’s going to hit next.
Well my view is virus’s are going to do what they do.....spread, and there’s no way you can tell who it’s going to hit next.
If Musk wants to do something useful he can issue a full sorted endorsement of Trump.
It was all to stop our economy and blame all failures and faults with Trump. That was what this made up Chinavirus was about. China and Bidens and other criminals dreamed all this crap up and fostered it on the world. Hell, it has been shown that Chinese were pouring out of Wuhan and whatever the name of that place the virus was dreamed up and they flew back and forth to Milan in Italy and that was the hotbed of the virus and remains so today. They kept going and coming and passing the virus around. The Chinese people were human carriers of this virus. They should be charged with all the deaths in the world. But, we all know that the UN will protect them.
...and, thus, can be counted as “Covid” related deaths, since there aren’t enough deaths directly from the WuHuFlu
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