There really aren’t any “lockdowns” anywhere in Europe, as far as I can tell? So the headline is already somewhat misleading. This argument about Sweden has be

There really aren’t any “lockdowns” anywhere in Europe, as far as I can tell? So the headline is already somewhat misleading. This argument about Sweden has been among the more annoying ones over the last far-too-many months. I distinctly remember people here arguing that Sweden had reached herd immunity two weeks into the pandemic. And again, every few weeks after that. If the internet had a memory, we’d stop those people continuing to pollute the public sphere with such drivel. Alas, here we are, with people pointing to individual deaths, among the 200 million or so vaccinated, as proof of adverse effects (“that the government wants to use to kill all the free thinkers…’) Anyway… Sweden had far more deaths than neighboring countries, and have themselves said they’d follow a different strategy if they got to make the decision again. Some people online are still promoting ideas whose inventors no longer do. The also isn’t any evidence that it helped protect the Swedish economy, which faired decidedly average compared to the rest of the continent.