Sweden's Success Is Kryptonite For Lockdown And Mask Advocates

Here in the United States, we have become inundated with tales of COVID-19 doom and gloom. In America, the mainstream narrative is rife with hopelessness. We are told that there is simply no way to stop this virus without repetitive lockdowns, healthy quarantine, even of asymptomatic individuals, and universal mask mandates. And even with all of those extreme policy measures put in place, the politicians and public health officials tell us that we will have to wait for a vaccine for the country to even think about our “new normal” following the COVID-19 pandemic.

There’s one country that they don’t seem to want to talk about - Sweden. And for good reason. Sweden debunks the hysteria.

Sweden shows how unnecessary all of the interventions to “fight” the virus are.

In Sweden, there’s no mandatory masks, no mandatory lockdown, no vaccine, and most importantly, no problem.

Life has largely returned to normal in Sweden, and it all happened without the economy-destroying non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) demanded by the “public health expert” class, who guaranteed that chaos would come to every country that disobeyed their commands to hit the self-destruct button for their nations.

The Swedish government has provided its advanced metrics on the COVID-19 pandemic to the public, and the data includes the ever-important statistics on actual day of death, and other useful information.

In August, Sweden has registered just one death (!) with/from the coronavirus. Yes, you read that correctly. One death so far. 

For the month of July, Sweden reported 226 deaths. They’ve accounted for 805 June deaths, 1646 in May, and 2572 in April. The deaths attributed to COVID-19 went from about a 50% reduction to falling off of a cliff.

The story is the same in the hospitals. COVID-19 is hardly registering as a blip on the radar. Sweden has reported just 4 new COVID-19 patients in their ICUs in August. The month of July saw only 52 COVID-19 patients in ICUs.

It doesn’t take a math whiz to come to the conclusion that the epidemic appears to have been wrapped up in Sweden for months. It’s unclear whether this is a result of having achieved the herd immunity threshold, or if the seasonality of the virus is providing indefinite relief. But it’s become absolutely clear that Sweden’s long term pandemic strategy is working.

Sweden did not do everything perfectly. Stockholm, like much of the West, failed to protect its nursing home population. The majority of the COVID-19 deaths in Sweden have come from the senior care population, with the average age of death (82) being the same as the average lifespan in the country. But remember, people in nursing homes are not mobile. They live in their own ecosystems and are not particularly impacted by COVID-19 policies. It was Sweden’s general population that was supposed to be plagued by their open society model to respond to the virus. We were told that the hospitals would be overrun, and that bodies of all ages would be dropping in the streets. This dystopian pandemia projection never came to fruition. Even during the worst months of the pandemic, Sweden’s general population never pressed their healthcare system. The same is true in the United States, but for whatever reason, many U.S. officials and “public health experts” have pushed the idea that everyone is equally impacted, which could not be further from the truth.

For this pandemic, the global public health expert class threw the pandemic playbook out the window, disregarding hundreds of years of proven science on herd immunity, in order to attempt to assert human control over a submicroscopic infectious particle. It hasn’t worked, to say the least. There is no evidence anywhere in the world that lockdowns or masks have *stopped* the spread of the virus. Sweden was one of the few places where cooler heads prevailed, and the scientists realized that attempts to stop the virus would be worse than the disease itself, in the form of economic and social ruin.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swedens-success-kryptonite-lockdown-and-mask-advocates

Dutch Josh wrote: At best one may hope Sweden's approach would show long-term benefits-it is to early to say.

I agree that it is far too early to say that Sweden's approach has been a success.  Compared with its neighbours it currently looks like it has been a disaster.   

When looking at Sweden I think it is honest to compare what happens there with the neighbouring countries, which share a similar climate / geographical area, similar population mix and similar social patterns.   It is this similarity that makes this such an interesting case study.  I also will include Germany as Sweden has good trade links with that country [Data from 11th August 2020 from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries ]

                       Cases / million         Deaths / million

Denmark              5,582                        107

Finland                 1,376                          60

Norway                 1,797                          47

Sweden                8,225                        571

Germany               2,619                       111

There is a significant difference in the results to date between those countries that locked down and Sweden. 

As Covid-19 cases seem to be picking up a little I think we will have to wait until we see how, what is being called in the press, the second wave unfolds (ie has Sweden got enough herd immunity so that that other countries start to show results closer to those of Sweden?)

AI wrote: And yet clearly Sweden's data regarding ICU admissions and overall daily cases of the virus continues to show ever steady declines despite them not enacting evasive COVID measures. The same can not be said for the vast majority of countries who did.  1991 swedes have died of CoVid out of a population of 10,099,265 equaling .0197% of the total population.

Not sure where you got the 1991 number.  If you add the deaths listed in the article, you get 5,249 deaths.  That means 0.05% of the population has died.  Still a very small number, but more than twice your 0.02%.  (Yes, I rounded.)