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Norway: ‘Lockdown was not necessary to tame Covid-19’ According to Camilla Stoltenberg, the Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folke

Norway: ‘Lockdown was not necessary to tame Covid-19’ According to Camilla Stoltenberg, the Director-General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet), similar results would have been achieved in her country without a lockdown. She bases that statement on a study by her institution. The study collected data on confirmed cases of coronavirus registered in Norway, the number of hospital admissions, the reproduction rate, etc. At the beginning of March it was feared that one person infected with the virus would infect four others. Only strict lockdown rules could bring that figure down. This hypothesis came from the Imperial College in London and gave forecasts for a number of European countries, including Norway. Virus never spread as fast as was feared In their report, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health now comes to a completely different conclusion: the virus never spread as quickly as was feared and was already on its way back when the lockdown was announced. ‘Our conclusion now is that we could have achieved a similar effect without lockdown. By staying open and taking a series of precautions to prevent the spread. It’s important that we admit that. Because should the number of infections rise again in winter or should there be a second wave, we have to be honest in our analysis whether such a lockdown has proven to be effective’. According to Stoltenberg, who is herself a doctor and the sister of former Norwegian Prime Minister and current NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, such draconian measures should only be announced in the future if there is an academic basis for them. And that was missing now, according to Stoltenberg. https://businessam.be/noorwegen-lockdown-was-niet-nodig-om-covid-19-te-temmen/ https://businessam.be/noorwegen-lockdown-was-niet-nodig-om-c...

berdario 6y ago
"Virus never spread as fast as was feared" Except in the US, in Italy, etc. where it's spreading or it has been spreading exactly as fast as feared.
- drummer 6y ago
  This is what was happening in Italy: "The figures are questionable Angelo Borrelli, the head of Civil Protection, who announces the latest figures every day at 6 p.m., said Saturday night that the 793 new deaths have been caused “by and with” the coronavirus. “We count all the dead, we make no distinction between with and by the coronavirus.” However, one wonders whether these daily figures reflect the situation correctly. The dead are said to have almost all had one or more other diseases, which leaves a question mark as to exactly how deadly the coronavirus is. At the same time, it has become clear that a large number of people who die at home (which is often a retirement home) do not undergo a coronavirus test." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/22/als-italie-het-voorland-is-wat-staat-nederland-te-wachten-a3994528 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/22/als-italie-het-voorland... "On Friday, April 24, 2020, Vittorio Sgarbi, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, denounced what he claims are false coronavirus death statistics. Sgarbi feels that fake statistics are being propagated by the government and the media to terrorize the citizens of Italy and establish a dictatorship. The member of the Forza Italia party slammed the closure of 60% of Italian businesses for 25,000 Chinese-Coronavirus deaths from the floor of the legislature. “It’s not true,” he said. “Don’t use the deaths for rhetoric and terrorism.” According to the National Institute of Health, 96.3% did not die of coronavirus, but of other pathologies stated Sgarbi – which means that only 925 have died from the virus and 24,075 have died of other things claimed Sgarbi, “….the virus was little more than an influenza. Don’t lie! Tell the truth!”" https://rairfoundation.com/italian-leader-slams-false-coronavirus-numbers-25000-did-not-die-its-a-way-to-impose-a-dictatorship-watch/ https://rairfoundation.com/italian-leader-slams-false-corona...
  - SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
    Yawn. You look at the excess death and it is actually higher than counted coronavirus death numbers.
  - gpderetta 6y ago
    Sgarbi is, hum, an "interesting" figure in Italy. Anyway, in the real world excess mortality in Italy was drammatically higher than even the worst flu seasons especially in the worst hit regions.

berdario 6y ago

"Virus never spread as fast as was feared" Except in the US, in Italy, etc. where it's spreading or it has been spreading exactly as fast as feared.

drummer 6y ago
This is what was happening in Italy: "The figures are questionable Angelo Borrelli, the head of Civil Protection, who announces the latest figures every day at 6 p.m., said Saturday night that the 793 new deaths have been caused “by and with” the coronavirus. “We count all the dead, we make no distinction between with and by the coronavirus.” However, one wonders whether these daily figures reflect the situation correctly. The dead are said to have almost all had one or more other diseases, which leaves a question mark as to exactly how deadly the coronavirus is. At the same time, it has become clear that a large number of people who die at home (which is often a retirement home) do not undergo a coronavirus test." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/22/als-italie-het-voorland-is-wat-staat-nederland-te-wachten-a3994528 https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/03/22/als-italie-het-voorland... "On Friday, April 24, 2020, Vittorio Sgarbi, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, denounced what he claims are false coronavirus death statistics. Sgarbi feels that fake statistics are being propagated by the government and the media to terrorize the citizens of Italy and establish a dictatorship. The member of the Forza Italia party slammed the closure of 60% of Italian businesses for 25,000 Chinese-Coronavirus deaths from the floor of the legislature. “It’s not true,” he said. “Don’t use the deaths for rhetoric and terrorism.” According to the National Institute of Health, 96.3% did not die of coronavirus, but of other pathologies stated Sgarbi – which means that only 925 have died from the virus and 24,075 have died of other things claimed Sgarbi, “….the virus was little more than an influenza. Don’t lie! Tell the truth!”" https://rairfoundation.com/italian-leader-slams-false-coronavirus-numbers-25000-did-not-die-its-a-way-to-impose-a-dictatorship-watch/ https://rairfoundation.com/italian-leader-slams-false-corona...
- SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
  Yawn. You look at the excess death and it is actually higher than counted coronavirus death numbers.
- gpderetta 6y ago
  Sgarbi is, hum, an "interesting" figure in Italy. Anyway, in the real world excess mortality in Italy was drammatically higher than even the worst flu seasons especially in the worst hit regions.