This is an outstanding article by John Tierney writing for City Journal. He brings together many of the things you’ll have seen and heard me saying over the last two years about Sweden and about Anders Tegnell specifically, and then goes on to add considerably more things that I didn’t know, all in an eminently readable package with lots of links for you to explore if you wish.
All in all, outstanding. I’ll quote it briefly to whet your appetite, but do yourself a favour and click through to read it all yourself:
If it hadn’t been for Tegnell and a few other heretics in places like Florida, we would not have clear evidence to prevent a similar catastrophe when the next virus arrives. Politicians and officials at the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control are still promoting useless mask mandates and defending their lockdowns with scientific sleight of hand: cherry-picked data and computer models purporting to show that the measures worked. Those claims have been rebutted in hundreds of studies, but journalists and politicians have mostly ignored that research, preferring to parrot the claims of the WHO and CDC officials who wave away the inconvenient findings.
But they can’t easily dismiss the results in Sweden and other places that followed its strategy. The real world trumps a computer model. Tegnell forced the lock-downers and mask zealots to test their unproven theories by making Sweden the control group in a natural experiment, and he did it in the face of extraordinary pressure, as the Swedish journalist Johan Anderberg recounts in superb detail in The Herd: How Sweden Chose Its Own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years.
Excerpt from: https://www.city-journal.org/the-who-does-not-deserve-the-nobel-peace-prize
As many of us, including me, were saying from the start, you can’t judge a pandemic response till the pandemic is over. There was much gloating early on when Sweden were a ‘disaster’, but the voices are getting quieter the more time passes.
When you get things right, time is your friend. And history has a lot of time on its hands. Anders Tegnell and the few others like him will be viewed very favourably in history indeed.
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The most important thing is the kids of Sweden can be forever thankful their lives were not ruined by the emotional trauma that lockdowns had on other kids of the world. (not to mention the masks and testing traumas).
Lockdowns was never about protecting anyone, it was about fearmongering people to get the vaxes and so they could test compliance of the people and install surveillance measures etc.