Ah Sweden. Those damn no-lockdowners that supposedly fared so badly.

Well, at least compared to, let’s see, their “neighbours”.

Let’s talk Sweden.

So, we have to talk about Sweden and her “neighbours” because, regardless of how deep your head is down the hole, you can’t ignore the fact that Sweden fared a lot better than other countries that implemented a full lockdown.

Ooops, wotsits, shhh, switch to “neighbour” comparisons, quick.

Lets quickly delve into the science and actual facts before accepting a one-sided account of how Sweden actually faced and dealt with this pandemic.

Just so we are clear, I do not agree with everything that Sweden did, but the fact of the matter is that their approach was far better than most.

If you do go through the actual figures and associated accounts of the story, you’ll see a consistent tactic of double-standards, biased reporting and downright lies that pervades the mainstream media, obviously because what Sweden did extinguishes the narrative of fear that is being pushed to accommodate lockdowns and other draconian, arbitrary and socially destructive measures that are part of the “new normal” agenda.

As the only major Western country that didn’t lock down in 2020, Sweden should – according to everything we have been told by “experts” – have had a massive death toll, with substantially more deaths (relative to its population) than the countries that had locked down.

Remember that just a year ago, the doomsday predictions by Neil “Broken Abacus” Ferguson were all about how millions were going to die, and were, in fact, one of the pivotal points in the prompting of this global tyranny.

So, with no life-saving lockdowns in place, it should have been the Swedish Armageddon.

Well, it wasn’t. Not even close.

Around a year later, several central European countries have now surpassed Sweden in mortality.

Czechia, once hailed as a model for its early adoption of lockdown and masking, has the highest Covid mortality rate in Europe.

When a comparison with European countries fails, I keep reading the castrated argument that Sweden has fared so much worse than its neighbours.

However, a quick look at the numbers shows us that Sweden actually did not have any spiralling death tolls even when compared to other Nordic countries.

The small difference Swedish death stats have from their neighbours quite probably stems from the very real possibility that the epidemic was already more advanced in Sweden than in other Nordic countries.

The number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths by July 1st was only 5,370. And up to week 51, the country saw age-adjusted excess mortality of just 1.7% – below the UK and below the European average.

In fact, Sweden’s first and second epidemics retreated long before the herd immunity threshold was reached, and far less than 1% of the population has died.

Here is the way it really is.

Sweden’s Covid-19 mortality rate is in line with the European average, which it achieved while avoiding many of the costs of lockdowns — to mental health, children’s education, individual well-being, livelihoods, etc—while suffering less economic damage than most European countries.

Just to make sure we ram the point home (you know, because in this day and age you have to), not only is the country’s Covid-19 mortality rate in line with the European average but it’s also well below the European average for all-cause excess mortality, according to a report by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.

2019 was an unusually low-mortality year for Sweden, so excess mortality in 2020 was elevated in comparison, but 2020 was unexceptional and no higher than 2012.

So much for the “Sweden and her neighbours” argument.

“ZERO COVID” IS BS

“Zero Covid” – the point where Covid-19 has been driven down as close as possible to zero through strict control measures – doesn’t work.

Just ask Australia.

The very idea that we need to completely eradicate Covid-19 to live is completely bogus.

It’s never going to work.

And that’s not even taking into account the fact that Covid-19 has a 99%+ survival rate.

This whole debacle was unwarranted in the first place. There is absolutely no need for this panic (well, unless you are making money from it…hint, hint…)

All that we need to do is to live with Covid-19 while taking care of our vulnerable .

Just as we have lived for millenia with so many other bacteria and viruses, and all the other creatures great and small (that we have not yet decimated), that we share the planet with.

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