> Japan [...] No lockdowns. No vaccine passports. No vaccine mandate. No mask mandate. Japan may not have mask mandates, but it is my understanding that they h

> Japan [...] No lockdowns. No vaccine passports. No vaccine mandate. No mask mandate. Japan may not have mask mandates, but it is my understanding that they had very high levels of non-mandated mask wearing. > Literally nothing. If you're implying that they had Great Barrington style mass infection parties, I would certainly like to see more evidence of that. > Sweden also had no lockdowns "Lockdowns" is a red herring. Very few places in the world had complete lockdowns, and very few places in the world were completely without restrictions. Notably, Sweden closed universities for some time and instituted domestic and international travel restrictions and assembly restrictions — exactly the kind of measures that get described as "lockdowns" in other countries. > and two years in, has lowest excess mortality in Europe Lowest, other than… Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Norway. Notably, they did MUCH worse than any of their immediate neighbours, which should be their natural peer group to compare against: https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336 https://elifesciences.org/articles/69336 And Sweden's particular way of "protecting the vulnerable" was to simply euthanize the elderly if they caught COVID: https://bioedge.org/uncategorized/questions-raised-about-swedens-covid-19-policy-on-nursing-homes/ https://bioedge.org/uncategorized/questions-raised-about-swe...