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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by akira2501 on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:59AM (#28272460)
> and it looks bad

Yet they did better than the US, UK and Spain which also engaged in lockdown measures. This also fails to acknowledge that there might be a worthwhile set of cost:benefit ratios to compare your single data point against.

> but it's really strange to be reading articles about how well Sweden has done.

People accuse the COVID situation of being political and dividing people. I think one of the major lines of division is in the expectations that one has about their daily life in a given society, and how few some people have about their own.

Each to their own, but the failure to acknowledge the validity of the opposing point of view, even in a polite tone, is a troubling development.

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by tonyedgecombe on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:17AM (#28273416)
>Yet they did better than the US, UK and Spain which also engaged in lockdown measures.

I don't know about the US or Spain but the lockdown measures in the UK were halfhearted. Somehow we managed to have the worst of both worlds, the biggest economic hit in the OECD and the worst health outcomes.

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