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<h1 class="reader-title">Sweden Wins! Country That Refused
Lockdown and Kept Schools Open Has Lowest Pandemic Mortality
in the World – The Daily Sceptic</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">Joel Smalley</div>
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<p>Back in April 2020, <em>Stuff </em><a
href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/121180716/swedens-covid19-plan-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-or-a-bold-evidencebased-response"
data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank"
rel="external noopener">reported</a> on how Sweden had
fared during that spring’s coronavirus wave despite
bucking the international trend to lock down.</p>
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<p>Professor Johan Giesecke, who first recruited Tegnell
during his own time as state epidemiologist, used a
rare interview last week to argue that the Swedish
people would respond better to more sensible measures.
He blasted the sort of lockdowns imposed in Britain
and Australia and warned a second wave would be
inevitable once the measures are eased.</p>
<p>“The Swedish Government decided early in January that
the measures we should take against the pandemic
should be evidence based. And when you start looking
around at the measures being taken by different
countries, you find very few of them have a shred of
evidence-base,” he said.</p>
<p>Giesecke, who has served as the first Chief Scientist
of the European Centre for Disease Control and has
been advising the Swedish Government during the
pandemic, told the <em>UnHerd </em>website there was
“almost no science” behind border closures and school
closures and social distancing and said he looked
forward to reviewing the course of the disease in a
year’s time.</p>
<p>“I think that the difference between countries will
be quite small in the end,” he said. “I don’t think
you can stop it. It’s spreading. It will roll over
Europe no matter what you do.”</p>
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<p>Giesecke was almost correct. But, the difference
between the countries in the end was not quite small.
Sweden did much, much better – ten times better than <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/28/chile-coronavirus-lockdowns-vaccination-success"
data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank"
rel="external noopener">Chile</a>, in fact, notorious
for having the strictest lockdowns ‘despite’ also having
one of the most ‘successful’ vaccination campaigns.</p>
<p>As of reporting date June 19th 2022, of all the
countries analysed by the <a
href="https://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=104676"
data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank"
rel="external noopener">OECD</a>, Sweden has the
lowest overall cumulative excess deaths tally.</p>
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<p>The somewhat less meaningful Covid death tally (per
million population) does not have the same relative
magnitude since different countries use different
methods for recording what is and what isn’t a Covid
death, on top of the fact, of course, that it’s a
Pyrrhic victory to mitigate Covid deaths at the expense
of higher excess non-Covid deaths. Take a look at Canada
and Israel as prime examples of this – remarkably low
Covid deaths relative to the rest of the world but very
much in the worst half of the dataset in terms of
overall excess mortality.</p>
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<p>My analysis of each country leads me to three main
conclusions.</p>
<p>First, Covid exists and is deadly for some. This is
evident given the very strong and consistent
correlations between weekly excess deaths and weekly
reported Covid deaths. I think it is also important to
accept this fact given that there is very little
resistance now to the assertion that Covid was
manufactured in a biolab. Those responsible for making
it are responsible for the millions of deaths it has
caused.</p>
<p>Secondly, experimental attempts at mitigating the
spread of the virus through various ‘social distancing’
measures, including school and business closures,
imprisoning healthy people in their homes, forced
wearing of masks, etc. show very little evidence of
benefit. Any specious evidence from prison islands
(Australia and New Zealand) is ultimately proven futile
as predicted by the world’s two best epidemiologists
(Giesecke and Tegnell). The harms of these interventions
are also apparent in the ultimate excess death numbers.
Those responsible for implementing them should be held
accountable for the deaths they have caused.</p>
<p>Thirdly, the only thing that could have made Covid
worse was to put the same people responsible for making
it in charge of making the antidote. It’s a bit like
putting the arsonists in charge of fire policy after
they have burnt down the city. But that’s what happened
with Covid. It is abundantly clear that there is no
reduction in Covid deaths as a result of the mass
administration of the experimental ‘vaccine’. Moreover,
as we should logically expect deficits in periods after
excess mortality such as occurred in the nine months
prior to the medical experiment, <em>and</em> greater
protection from herd immunity, <em>and</em> the natural
selection of less virulent variants, it is difficult to
argue against the allegation that the experiment has
somehow contributed to the perpetuation of Covid rather
than its demise. This is further supported by the fact
that Covid and excess deaths both taper off in line with
society’s final realisation that they should take no
further part in the experiment.</p>
<p>Perhaps next time, we should all be a bit more like
Sweden? You know, like our lives depended on it? Not the
bit about hurried medical experimentation though, we can
leave that bit out.</p>
<p>Just the bit about letting people decide for themselves
what actions they should take when faced with life.</p>
<p>It might just be me but I don’t think stupid
politicians, greedy pharmaceutical companies and
academics whose careers depend on pharma funding are the
best people for the job.</p>
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