Lockdown Germany had more deaths than skeptical Sweden | The world | News
New statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that the lockdown-free Sweden had fewer deaths than Germany. The data challenges the story that countries that introduced the strictest coronavirus restrictions for their citizens saved the most lives. The latest estimates of redundant deaths during the pandemic, developed by the WHO, have shown that nations such as Sweden, which introduced very few restrictions, had fewer deaths from the pathogen than nations that introduced strict lock-in conditions.
Sweden did not follow the rest of Europe in the lockdown in the spring of 2020.
The Scandinavian nation, unlike its neighbors, introduced much lighter restrictions.
When most Europeans were forbidden to leave their homes without a reasonable excuse, Swedes were free to go to bars, restaurants, cafes and shops.
The nation’s schools remained open to all students under the age of 16.
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Large gatherings were banned, but the Swedish government largely relied on trusting the public to follow the guidance.
The nation did not introduce social isolation by decree.
In the face of their less aggressive stance against the coronavirus, the global reaction against Sweden was relentlessly negative.
The New York Times repeatedly branded Sweden a “pariah state” because of its policy without lockdown.
The nation was even called the “warning story of the world”.
The British Guardian, which was once a fan of Swedish social democracy, condemned the Nordic nation as a “model” nation for right-wing extremists.
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The Guardian branded Sweden’s coronavirus policy as “deadly stupidity”.
Proponents of a strict lockdown explained that Swedes had chosen to “live freely and die”.
But the WHO’s estimates of deaths paint a different picture.
Sweden experienced some of the lowest numbers of excesses in the EU between January 2020 and January 2022.
ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston, said he found it “striking” that Britain “no longer seems to have had the worst death toll among richer countries”.
Britain turned out to have fewer deaths than many other developed countries.
This was in contrast to the mass media in other nations that ran the story that Britain was at the top of the list when it came to the death rate from the coronavirus.