Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea...
by CryptoPunk on Monday August 23, 2021 @06:25AM
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I think only looking at number of deaths from covid is a huge mistake. What about the quality of life of all of those who survived?
A lockdown is no small thing. It's forcing millions of people into forced isolation, which has hard to forsee consequences for mental health and social development, means destroying innumerable small businesses, and with it, people's livelihoods, closing schools, with devastating effects to education [1], etc.
Also worth noting that the initial projections for covid deaths in Sweden vastly over-estimated the pandemic's eventual lethality:
A lockdown is no small thing. It's forcing millions of people into forced isolation, which has hard to forsee consequences for mental health and social development, means destroying innumerable small businesses, and with it, people's livelihoods, closing schools, with devastating effects to education [1], etc.
Also worth noting that the initial projections for covid deaths in Sweden vastly over-estimated the pandemic's eventual lethality:
https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-actual-covid-19-results-co...
[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...