[D66] [JD: 160] Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths

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aier.org
<https://www.aier.org/article/sweden-despite-variants-no-lockdowns-no-daily-covid-deaths/>



  Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths

Michael Fumento
6-8 minutes
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Since the Covid pandemic broke out, Sweden has been fought over more
than any other part of Europe since Germany in the 30 Years War. In
refusing to use an iron fist to control a virus, lockdown advocates
claimed it was either committing murder or suicide; choose your favorite
metaphor. Relatively few such as me, in three separate articles, claimed
the Nordic country was sparing both the economy and something called
“liberty” with its light-handed approach. My favorite title (editor
chose it): “Media Enraged That More Swedes Aren’t Dying
<https://www.fumento.com/articles/media-enraged-that-more-swedes-aren-t-dying/>.”

Thus last year we saw such headlines as CNN
<https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/04/29/sweden-no-lockdown-update-phil-black-ebof-dnt-vpx.cnn>’s
“Deaths Soar In Country That Didn’t Lock Down. Officials Identify Big
Reason Why.” Around the same time “Sweden Steadfast In Strategy As Virus
Toll Continues Rising
<https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/05/28/sweden-steadfast-strategy-virus-toll-continues-rising/>,”
claimed another source. “Sweden’s Coronavirus Strategy Drives Up
Infection Rate
<https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/28/sweden-coronavirus-strategy>,”
screamed the BBC. /Everyone/ was playing pile-on. “Sweden Has The
Highest Daily Coronavirus Death Rate In The World – And It’s Getting
Worse
<https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-death-rate-144650769.html>.”
That’s from Yahoo Sports. /Sports/?

Modelers desperately tried to scare Sweden into locking down. One
predicted an incredible median
<https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1> of
96,000 deaths, with a maximum of 183,000. At Sweden’s Lund University an
academic used the parameters in the now-infamous Neil Ferguson/Imperial
College model
<https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf>
to warn that it meant 85,000 deaths for Sweden
<https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-tames-its-r-number-without-lockdown>.
An Uppsala University team
<https://www.aier.org/article/imperial-college-model-applied-to-sweden-yields-preposterous-results/>
also found the nation paying a terrible price with 40,000 Covid-19
deaths by May 1, 2020 and almost 100,000 by June. 

Total Swedish Covid deaths at this writing: 14,651
<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=swedish+covid+deaths>.


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