Great Barrington! Sweden's No Lockdowns mindset a FAIL on all counts, even economy. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg APR 02, 06:31 PM
That's the gist of a new column in the Los Angeles Times, based on a new research report that was just published in Nature.

Here are some excerpts:

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That's a [rebuke] to the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely criticized white paper endorsing the quest for herd immunity and co-written by Martin Kulldorf, a Sweden-born Harvard professor...


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The bottom line is that Swedes suffered grievously from Tegnell’s policies. According to the authoritative Johns Hopkins pandemic tracker, while its total death rate from February 2020 through this week, 1,790 per million population, is better than that of the U.S. (2,939), Britain (2,420) and France (2,107), it’s worse than that of Germany (1,539), Canada (984) and Japan (220). More tellingly, it’s much worse than the rate of its Nordic neighbors Denmark (961), Norway (428) and Finland (538), all of which took a tougher anti-pandemic approach.


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The OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development] found that in terms of pandemic-driven economic contraction, Sweden did marginally better than Europe as a whole, but markedly worse than its Nordic neighbors Denmark, Norway and Finland, “despite the adoption of softer distancing measures, especially during the first COVID wave.” COVID-19, the OECD concludes, “hit the [Swedish] economy hard.”


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If Sweden had Norway’s death rate, it would have suffered only 4,429 deaths from COVID during the pandemic, instead of more than 18,500.


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The country’s treatment of the elderly and patients with comorbidities such as obesity was especially appalling... “Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives,” the researchers wrote.


"Did Sweden beat the pandemic by refusing to lock down? No, its record is disastrous"
Michael Hiltzik, business columnist for the Los Angeles Times; March 31, 2022.
https://www.latimes.com/bus...olicy-was-a-disaster

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 04-02-2022).]