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Swedens success shows the true cost of our arrogant, failed establishment
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Telegraph (One of the UK's leading newspapers)
Posted: August 24th, 2020
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/12/swedens-success-...
So now we know: Sweden got it largely right, and the British establishment catastrophically wrong. Anders Tegnell, Stockholms epidemiologist-king, has pulled off a remarkable triple whammy: far fewer deaths per capita than Britain, a maintenance of basic freedoms and opportunities, including schooling, and, most strikingly, a recession less than half as severe as our own. Politicians can react in one of three ways to a pandemic. They can do nothing, and allow the disease to rip until herd immunity is reached. Quite rightly, no government has pursued this policy, out of fear of mass deaths and total social and economic collapse. The second approach involves imposing proportionate restrictions to facilitate social distancing, banning certain sorts of gatherings while encouraging and informing the public. The Swedes pursued a version of this centrist strategy: there was a fair bit of compulsion, but also a focus on retaining normal life and keeping schools open. There was no formal lockdown. The third option is the full-on statist approach, which imposes a legally binding lockdown and shuts down society. Almost all economists thought that Swedens economy would suffer hugely from its idiosyncratic strategy. They were wrong. Swedens GDP fell by just 8.6 per cent in the first half of the year ... and its excess deaths jumped 24 per cent. By contrast, Britains economy slumped by 22.2 per cent in the first half of the year, a performance almost three times as bad as Swedens, and its excess deaths shot up by 45 per cent.
Note: A Swedish MD on the front lines shares thoughts on why Sweden's COVID death rate has been in the single digits for weeks. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.
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