In the End, Sweden Did It Right
Townhall,
by
Stephen Moore
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
2/23/2022 2:19:44 AM
What if two years ago, when COVID-19 first hit these shores, our politicians hadn't panicked?
What if the government did what it has done every time we were confronted with a deadly virus, such as the Spanish flu or polio? Instead of locking down our schools, churches and businesses, the government could have simply informed citizens of the risks of getting sick and urged people to be extra careful about hygiene, stay out of crowded places and protect the vulnerable.
It turns out there was one country that mostly rejected lockdowns and let life go on as normal as possible under dire circumstances. That country was Sweden.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 2/23/2022 2:27:47 AM (No. 1080034)
How about South Dakota, Florida, and Texas?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 2/23/2022 2:35:19 AM (No. 1080036)
Suspicions persist that this was an intentional release because it jumped globally to a political cudgel each side uses to clobber one another, and for all the things OP said. Not to mention the VAST transfer of wealth - I'm all for capitalism, but this wasn't capitalism. How in Hades are Big Pharma allowed to profit to the absurd extent they have? Something is NOT RIGHT about any of this on so many levels.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 2/23/2022 2:55:03 AM (No. 1080043)
If it were not for Fauci funding the bat research and Gates pushing it, we would not have had the pandemic to begin with.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/23/2022 3:55:12 AM (No. 1080060)
The solution was stupid and evil. Donald Trump is the POTUS and Joe is a demented loser. Joe and his sycophants should be populating the DC jails, not American patriots.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/23/2022 5:06:52 AM (No. 1080084)
Indeed. Sweden (AND South Dakota, Florida, Texas) put the lie to pretty much all the pandemic mumbo-jumbo Fauxi-controls. If you want to watch a Fauxist or a Karen sputter into incoherent babble, just mention any of these truth-samples to them...and stand back.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 2/23/2022 7:09:24 AM (No. 1080138)
Totally agree with you OP. We The People were played for gullible and scared sheeple by career pols and gvt Admin who only care about power and to hell with us. What a huge effort it was too-almost every single media outlet was in lockstep with whatever the Democrats said, and we ended up seeing the death of our republic. Our votes don't count. The Democrats made sure of that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 2/23/2022 7:14:39 AM (No. 1080143)
I offer only my opinion, which I, of course, value highly, but here it is.
Setting aside presidential politics, I believe Fauci was the main problem with the Kung Flu. He, like other medical researchers, has been fascinated with viral illnesses, and the theoretical possibility of creating a super shot innoculation, which would lead us to super immunity., is a goal.
That would make Fauci the Alexander The Great in the garden of physicians of history.
Bill Gates, diddlng with his piles of money, got board, perhaps to assuage guilt over selling the same crappy app, over and over again.
And when the Kung Flu hit, and Governor Cuomo did everything wrong, while being praised by the media for that, and DJT gave him a working hospital at the Javits Center, and the U.S.S. Hope hospital ship, those facilities remained almost empty. Cuomo and Murphy crammed infected oldsters back into nursing homes, after those oldsters were over treated with ventilators. And governors became medical executors
That, in turn, led to high death rates.
In addition, there was no strong medical voice to speak to DJT. The Physician whop should have been listened to was Dr. Birx, a clinician, but she spoke somewhat softly on treatment options, whille Fauci rolled his eyes to dismiss her suggestions.
If we add in most of the media, itching to hurt DJT's presidency, and dimocrat and some republican legislators and governors who wanted the same, we might understand how we got here.
Alexander the Great is said to have wept when he was told that there were no more countries to conquer..
My theory is that Fauci wanted to weep when all diseases were gone because of his acts of leadership..He sees himself as the better of every medical researcher in history, if the truth be known.
I believe my post to be theoretical, but closer to the truth than other theories.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Krause 2/23/2022 7:30:57 AM (No. 1080158)
What is says is that the left has to have crises to exploit in order to stay in power. Meaning it will get worse in the future.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 2/23/2022 7:45:30 AM (No. 1080171)
Article's final sentence: 'I just pray we have all learned that enduring lesson before another virus wave arrives.' Fat chance, if the Commiecrats remain in power. Like islamoterrorists, the Molochrats love Death. If it bleeds; it leads. If it wipes out millions; we pocket billions.
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Makes you wonder why their government didn't obey the globalist directives like all the rest.
Maybe globalist live there???
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
millstream 2/23/2022 8:35:47 AM (No. 1080227)
The whole pandemic was just an excuse to condition the population to totalitarian control and allow a loosening of voting regulations. The infection management was a joke at best and an experiment with the populations wellbeing at worst. How long before we have draconian government controls imposed because of climate change, gun control, eating meat, limiting family size etc...it's for the peoples health right
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena 2/23/2022 8:47:34 AM (No. 1080238)
Correct about Sweden. The only thing they should have done differently was they should have done more to protect the elderly. Lockdowns don't work, masks don't work and vaccines provided imperfect protection and probably caused the variants to arise. What should have been done was to let the virus run its course. If people at high risk needed to stay home, fine. But there was no need to quarantine the healthy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
qr4j 2/23/2022 9:22:01 AM (No. 1080265)
It sounds as if a big difference between Sweden and the United States amounts to one thing: politics. Sweden didn't have an opposition party trying to oust a sitting president by any means possible, including the death of its fellow citizens. America did.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Right Time 2/23/2022 9:43:38 AM (No. 1080289)
Remember the prediction of millions of US deaths due to Covid by British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson?
That started the whole global scare.
If we had a trustworthy FBI, they would investigate Ferguson's role in starting the whole pandemic scare
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 2/23/2022 10:36:09 AM (No. 1080368)
This was obvious from the beginning. There was no reason to shut down the country. And if HCQ and ivermectin had been permitted, like in huge numbers of third world countries, very few would have died.
This is entirely a CDC, FDA and Dr. Fraud created and exacerbated event.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MDConservative 2/23/2022 10:49:15 AM (No. 1080391)
Americans continue to fail their civics exams, and COVIDS is just another failure. Politicians don't "lead", rather follow public opinion to remain popular enough for re-election. Before blaming Biden, let's look at the Trump response. There is your burning fuse. PDT apparently trusted the government's "experts", like Fauci and Birx. He turned over the Bully Pulpit to them...and convinced many that we needed a war footing to battle this plague. He invoked the War Production Act of 1950. He sent hospital ships to NYC that ended up empty. He kicked off "Project Warp Speed" that produced magic elixir until January 20, 2021...then it became Biden Poison.
'22 is another election year. Even with Democrats getting hammered, the return rate on incumbents will be higher than 75 percent...likely much higher. Rinse and repeat...what wil be the next "crisis"? Americans are now hooked on nightly fear porn.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/23/2022 11:34:16 AM (No. 1080439)
If only Sweden had not permitted a large portion of the Middle East and North Africa to move in rent-free but that's another story.
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