3491 sats \ 2 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 30 Aug 2023 \ on: Sweden proves that lockdowns were unecessary meta
As a Swedish person (with more than one medical doctor sibling, working in the field—both of them btw got COVID and had mild symptoms) I can provide some context for why we went this route, even when our usually politically aligned northern neighbors didn't. Norway locked down. Denmark locked down ("0% deaths!" laughable.)
  1. Why didn't we lock down? Because we had very recently been through a very similar situation, where we saw the dangers of mass hysteria. Specifically, our Infectious Disease Expert Anders Tegnel, who had just been traumatized by his role in the recent Swine flu epidemic (2009) in Sweden, during which he led the charge of mass vaccination which led to hundreds of children developing narcolepsy, was still in charge and trusted. All this is basically hear-say, but I'm writing it to give you an inclination as to why Tegnell and the Swedish people were "inoculated" against COVID mass hysteria.
  2. My sibling doctors reported a ridiculous "only-for-show" mask wearing (even when on zoom conferences, for christs sake), and more importantly, there was a heavy pressure to label anyone who died WITH covid, as dying FROM covid. If you know anything about how complicated death of old people (and they were always the ones dying, like we clearly saw in Italy which early got hit HARD because the elderly live with their families there), then saying "oh it was just covid" is about as dishonest as you can be. But those statistics were needed for the funding to work.
As a personal note, I never noticed any lockdowns AT ALL. We perhaps had a couple sick leaves from work. There were no masks. No fights. There were some curfews, but I don't really hang out late anyway.
I'm proud of my country for sticking it out, for trusting Tegnell, trusting the science instead of the mass hysteria. I think we will all be better prepared for the next pandemic when it comes (not just sweden, and not just because all the old people died :))
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 31 Aug 2023
thanks for sharing, very interesting
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 31 Aug 2023
Why didn't we lock down? Because we had very recently been through a very similar situation, where we saw the dangers of mass hysteria. Specifically, our Infectious Disease Expert Anders Tegnel, who had just been traumatized by his role in the recent Swine flu epidemic (2009) in Sweden, during which he led the charge of mass vaccination which led to hundreds of children developing narcolepsy, was still in charge and trusted. All this is basically hear-say, but I'm writing it to give you an inclination as to why Tegnell and the Swedish people were "inoculated" against COVID mass hysteria.
This is so interesting.
Let's hope Americans (and others around the world) also learn this lesson against mass hysteria.
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