Loading ...The numbers are in, and we can say it with certainty: Lockdowns were worse than useless
It was all for nothing. Really, for nothing. The miseries we inflicted on ourselves after March 2020 — the school closures, the ruined businesses, the debts, the authoritarianism — were caused by a moment of lightheaded panic.
How can I be so sure? Because, three-and-a-half years on, the results are in. And, let me warn you, they make dismal reading for anyone who went along with the lockdowns. You see, there was a counterfactual all along. Sweden did not impose mask mandates or stay-at-home orders. It did not close its borders or its businesses. Other than banning large meetings, it carried on as normal and told people to use their common sense.
Internationally, Swedes were portrayed as gamblers defying the scientific consensus. But it was they who were following the epidemic protocols drawn up by the WHO in cooler-headed times — protocols that never contemplated the mass immobilization of the population.
The rest of the world embarked on an experiment; Sweden was the control. And the leaders of other countries knew it at the time. Hence their resentment of that stolid, sensible social democracy.
Looks like we are headed that way again 🙁
No Way Ken
Resist the bullshit.
So far there are NO meaningful mandates or lockdowns
PUSH BACK
Last time around I got kicked off my favourite site for objecting to the idiocy of school closures. I hardly said anything at all. Something like its not a great idea to close schools because children are nearly immune to this illness. Boom…I was gone and the site operator would not even answer my objections. All because some idiot teacher wanted the free time off to sit at home. Sheesh!