Even The WHO has to acknowledge reality
Throughout the pandemic, Sweden has faced an enormous amount of criticism and international pressure due to their willingness to stick to established public health principles and pre-pandemic planning.
Instead of following the incessant, anti-science groupthink that became part of a virus-induced political religion, Sweden chose instead to not impose the strict lockdowns that Dr. Fauci recently claimed were not tried in the US.
Sweden never mandated masks be worn in indoor public spaces, correctly identifying the lack of evidence supporting their use.
They kept schools open in defiance of teacher’s unions and politically motivated “experts” in the United States who advocated for a policy with zero benefits and tremendous harms.
Essentially, Sweden followed the actual science and not The Science™, with the requisite trademark and capital letters. That would include the guides that were prepared prior to the panic, inaccurate modeling, political motivations and crisis obsession took over.
Even last year it became readily apparent that no one in the media or public health establishment was willing to discuss the inarguable reality that Sweden’s results were no worse than many countries across the globe — and significantly better than many, many others:
In general, comparisons have been mainly focused on COVID specific outcomes, but now the World Health Organization, fresh off demanding authoritarian powers over sovereign nations whenever they deem necessary, has released a new report on their estimates of excess mortality.
Excess mortality is simply the number of deaths above the expected rate in a given country in a specific time frame.
Excess mortality captures all of the outcomes in a country — it’s not limited to COVID related metrics or any other specific cause.
For that reason it can often be a better indicator of the true cost of the pandemic, whether that be COVID mortality or the consequences of lockdowns, hospital policy or mental health breakdowns.
The WHO report contains many illuminating statistics from the first two years of the pandemic which illustrate that Sweden’s approach was undoubtedly the correct one; once again contradicting the expert derived “consensus” that advocates for endless restrictions on normal life.
Sweden’s relative success is easily visible when comparing thirty European countries in estimated excess mortality rate per 100,000:
Sweden ranks 25th out of the 30 countries.
24 countries had a higher excess mortality rate per 100,000.
In summary, Sweden, the country that eschewed strict lockdowns, had some of the lowest mask usage anywhere on earth, kept schools open and society functioning as much as possible, and had one of the lowest rates of overall mortality of any country in their region.
While a single graph or chart may not necessarily disprove pro-mandate arguments, this one comes remarkably close.
If lockdowns, masks and other restrictions were as important as experts and politicians preach that they are, these results should not be possible.
Countries like Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic were all praised for having “science based” responses with strict lockdowns, and extremely high rates of mask compliance.
Sweden vastly outperformed each of them.
But let’s dive in a bit deeper.
One of the more common refrains from mask advocates is that US states such as New York, New Jersey and others have poor cumulative results because they weren’t aware early on that masks “work,” so their policies were adjusted and spread was successfully reversed by mask mandates and other restrictions after the first wave.
However, Sweden shows the exact opposite.
Restrictions in Sweden for the entirety of 2020 and 2021 were consistently among the least authoritarian and invasive when compared to other western countries.
Once again, if mask mandates, lockdowns and strict vaccine based policies were so important and effective, we’d expect the outcomes in 2021 to be worse in Sweden, as most of the world experienced increased spread with more transmissible variants.
Instead we see the exact opposite:
Black bars indicate the 2020 rate in each country, while the orange bars are the 2021 rates.
In many European countries, excess mortality became significantly worse in 2021 despite the arrival of vaccines, the ingrained evidence-free belief in masks and widespread discriminatory vaccine passport policies. Sweden had the exact opposite results, with significantly lower rates in 2021 despite their “lax” rules.
Comparing the 2021 numbers exclusively also highlights Sweden’s success:
Although the determination of pro-mandate fanatics to exclusively compare Sweden to other Scandinavian countries is nonsensical, the 2021 excess mortality rates show Sweden with lower numbers than both Finland and Denmark.
Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreyatucker
My god, they will never let this go. NYT explains that lockdowns, compliance, masks, travel restrictions plus harsh and universal vaccine mandates are the best way, citing Australia. https://t.co/rJTFTXkFa5
Their numbers were also lower than a number of other countries that imposed mask mandates and strict vaccine passports like Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
Revisiting the overall chart from 2020-2021, it’s important to highlight several other countries that had much stricter rules than Sweden:
France, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain and Italy all had lockdowns, varying levels of vaccine discrimination, mask mandates and strict entry requirements.
All fared worse than Sweden.
The lockdown and mask apologists simply offered no explanation for this.
Oh sure, there are excuses and misdirections, but no actual explanations.
Yes, Sweden had higher cumulative rates than the other Scandinavian countries, but viewing them in context shows how similar they actually were, outside of Norway, which was essentially a global exception.
Norway, however, had significant rates of spread in late 2021 that would not be counted until the 2022 data is in.
In general, the Scandinavian countries were more lax than most of continental Europe regardless.
More importantly, the broader context of Europe shows how successful Sweden’s policies actually were.
Here are several notable countries and how much higher than excess mortality rates were from 2020-2021:
- Czech Republic 229%
- United States 163%
- Italy 147%
- Spain 106%
- United Kingdom 100%
- Germany 96%
- Portugal 71%
- Greece 63%
- Netherlands 57%
- Belgium 35%
All of these countries had much harsher restrictions than Sweden with significantly worse results.
No matter how hard they try, every available piece of data and evidence continues to contradict the assertions made by incompetent experts desperate to protect their disgraced reputations and future grants.
Masks, lockdowns and strict discrimination at nearly every indoor business were all proven to be completely ineffective, both at reducing infections and overall mortality.
Sweden’s willingness to follow science and not The Science™ meant that they limited the negative impacts of COVID while avoiding higher numbers of deaths from other lockdown-derived consequences.
The vast majority of mainstream media outlets have no interest in covering these results because it contradicts the policies they’ve strongly advocated for and consistently promoted.
CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and many other mainstream left wing publications did their best to ensure that corporations, politicians, teacher’s unions and other decision makers had the cover to enforce seemingly endless mandates.
Disturbingly, toddlers are still masked in New York City, which appears to be heading back towards mask mandates and vaccine passports (now with boosters!).
School districts across the United States have already decided to mandate masks due to a slight increase in cases.
These policies will now be an endless, reoccurring threat in anti-science areas like Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
All based on the lie that masks work. A lie that Sweden helps expose.
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My theory is that so many mooslimfuks invaded Sweden over the past decade that there was just no more room for a corona invasion.
Australia had negative excess mortality it seems. Just saying.
There’s more to living than just not dying.
You are presumably aware that the Australian government lies about inconvenient facts, as a matter of policy.
Australia had negative excess mortality it seems. Just saying.
Huh?
‘..it is clear that things have gone really wrong for Australia since the week ending 11th April 2021. Between then and the end of Feb 2022, there have been 16k excess deaths.’
and
‘In 2022, there were 29,685 deaths that occurred by 28 February and were registered by 30 April. This is 5,052 deaths (20.5%) more than the baseline average.’
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/jan-feb-2022#data-download
This is … a mish-mash.
It’s generally agreed (I’d say the evidence is incontrovertible) that it’s the vax that is causing the rise in both cov cases and excess mortality due to all causes. So why focus on mask mandates (they’d induce, al la 1918 Spanish flu, a massive rise in bacterial pneumonia’s, not necessarily a cov increase and probably not an all-causes rise, which would probably be entirely unaffected as utterly useless as masks are for that purpose)?
Draconian restrictions and mask mandates ‘could’ reflect a high vax rate, but also the opposite. Look at The UK, very strict (well except if you were an elite) mandates and enforcement but actual, as opposed to claimed, vax rates are closer to 60% (at best – even the government is reluctantly admitting close to a third of the country simply refused point blank, after claiming almost everybody had ‘complied’ – in Britain? Where if you mandated oxygen, 25% would hold their breath, because … FU. Compliance with mask mandates etc. was ‘spotty’ at best anywhere not directly supervised/threatened by police, even at the height). (I know, not just suspect, the same will be true in the other Anglo countries too).
[Also the 2020 figures for excess death are suspect because even before vax rollout the murder-factories known as hospitals and nursing-homes had been laboring at their maximum ‘dealing’ with the ‘issue’ of the disabled and elderly. As such 2020 figures are already massively higher than previous/average years, and thus minimize just how bad 2021 really is – and how bad 2022 will be.]
I suspect Sweden has done so well because it (even the average uninformed LIV) didn’t have the ‘reassurance’ of mask theater. As such the people there acted sensibly – if someone was sick, they isolated, took reasonable and considerate precautions as did everyone else. Everywhere else the masks made the LIV’s feel secure, so even if unwell, they went out, and the vax made that exponentially worse (‘I’ can’t get the coof, so why should I care about anyone else?) and thus we had millions of mask-wearing infected typhoid Mary’s (exclusively socializing with other vaxtards).
It’s almost as if people and societies have, after aeons of experience, learnt how to deal with pandemics. It’s only when the public health nannies in government impose their (new, untested, blatantly unrealistic, but guaranteed to be personally profitable for them) favorite ‘theory’ on society that such a societies coping fails … spectacularly (as usual).
So? Sweden did better ultimately/essentially because its government and health system interfered the least in people/societies normal, sensible, historically proven reaction to disease.
(Hmm, businesses, education, health, almost every aspect of our lives do better with less government involvement – it’s almost as if government ‘help’ … really isn’t).
What is government for? Reduced to its essentials: internal protection – justice, law and contract enforcement; external protection – military and border enforcement, for the country and its people. Anything, everything else that government gets involved in is unnecessary and nothing more than government, and those who work in it, expansion and profiteering. And they always, but always, screw whatever it is up!
Coof is merely yet another example of this universal certainty.)
Switzerland would be better as an emulation model, ‘Neutral’ for all those yrs. What do they have an abundance of, other than of course the noteworthy levels in the days of the Benevolent travel agents who provided free, all expenses paid vacations from Africa to various ports of call in the antebellum south?
2nd highest demographic concentration there (Charleston, etc.) in the known world at the time.