I saw a Business Insider article in my RSS Feed that Sweden had the most deaths in 2020 on record since a famine decades ago. They seem to attribute this to not locking down for COVID-19. The problem is that if you look at the WHO situation report this is the real picture that unfolds:
Sweden (which did not lock down and cause economic damage to its people) had 573 deaths per million from COVID-19 so far this year.
From that same report:
Italy (which locked down and caused serious economic damage to its people) had 585 deaths per million.
The UK (which locked down and caused serious economic damage to its people) had 609 deaths per million.
Spain (which locked down and caused serious economic damage to its people) had 612 deaths per million.
Locking down did not prevent anyone from dying. Articles that only look at one country and try to make an example of it, without comparing it to others are not telling you the truth.
Right now, Sweden's unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, similar to what it was before the COVID-19 experiment. The USA has a recorded rate of 10 percent and we have been out of lock down in most states for months. Sweden's unemployment rate remained even while ours went up to almost 20%.
In the United States, we will not be able to examine how badly COVID-19 affected us until 2022. The people at the CDC are counting on that. They know real research takes time. They do not want you to see how badly we hurt ourselves without stopping COVID-19 until you can no longer do anything about it.
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