Not only did they do the best job of balancing common humanity with policy, but their response was also just about the only SCIENTIFIC one.
And it WORKED: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-remove-most-remaining-pandemic-restrictions-this-month-2021-09-07/
https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se
1,400 new cases but no new deaths.
As I said a year ago, locking people down fucks their immune systems up. It might prevent those in younger children from developing properly outright.
Masks don’t do shit.
And Herd Immunity is most solid and safest based on NATURAL immunity. Sweden was very open relative to most of the world for most of 2020, and even though they are using the vaccinations, in my own view those vaccinations are secondary to the fact that nearly every man, woman, and child was EXPOSED to COVID.
As Tegnell confessed, their failed to protect their elderly properly, but that was an issue of execution, not planning.
For all intents and purposes, they did the Great Barrington Declaration, which was the obvious SHORTEST PATH BACK TO NORMALITY, as well as the one least abusive to common decency, which is to say the one least contemptuous of human suffering and indignity.
Sweden, which never masked up, and never cancelled school for most kids under 16, and never locked down anything like most of Europe, has the best health right now, and are ending all restrictions outright.
Science is about congruence between stated aim and result. What we have been using in America is not science. It is absolute bullshit, that is only being bought by people because our media has been bought, and because most Americans were never educated properly. They were taught compliance and obedience to authority–to officially anointed “experts”–not critical thinking and the scientific method.
And by the way, their death rate was lower than our own. I did the math the other day. They were about 1 death in 615 I think it was, and we are at 1 in 512. By literally every metric, numerically and morally– and this will eventually include mental health indicators and economic indicators–their response was superior.
And as said, their number SHOULD be lower. They failed in some specific tasks, but even in failure they are significantly better than us.
They should give themselves the Nobel Prize.