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<h1 class="reader-title">Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns,
No Daily Covid Deaths</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">Michael Fumento</div>
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<p>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): “<a
href="https://www.fumento.com/articles/media-enraged-that-more-swedes-aren-t-dying/">Media
Enraged That More Swedes Aren’t Dying</a>.”</p>
<p>Thus last year we saw such headlines as <a
href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/04/29/sweden-no-lockdown-update-phil-black-ebof-dnt-vpx.cnn">CNN</a>’s
“Deaths Soar In Country That Didn’t Lock Down. Officials
Identify Big Reason Why.” Around the same time “<a
href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/05/28/sweden-steadfast-strategy-virus-toll-continues-rising/">Sweden
Steadfast In Strategy As Virus Toll Continues Rising</a>,”
claimed another source. “<a
href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/28/sweden-coronavirus-strategy">Sweden’s
Coronavirus Strategy Drives Up Infection Rate</a>,” screamed
the BBC. <em>Everyone</em> was playing pile-on. “<a
href="https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-death-rate-144650769.html">Sweden
Has The Highest Daily Coronavirus Death Rate In The World –
And It’s Getting Worse</a>.” That’s from Yahoo Sports. <em>Sports</em>?</p>
<p>Modelers desperately tried to scare Sweden into locking down.
One <a
href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1">predicted
an incredible median</a> of 96,000 deaths, with a maximum of
183,000. At Sweden’s Lund University an academic used the
parameters in the <a
href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf">now-infamous
Neil Ferguson/Imperial College model</a> to warn that it <a
href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-tames-its-r-number-without-lockdown">meant
85,000 deaths for Sweden</a>. An <a
href="https://www.aier.org/article/imperial-college-model-applied-to-sweden-yields-preposterous-results/">Uppsala
University team</a> also found the nation paying a terrible
price with 40,000 Covid-19 deaths by May 1, 2020 and almost
100,000 by June. </p>
<p>Total Swedish Covid deaths at this writing: <a
href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=swedish+covid+deaths">14,651</a>.</p>
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