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Thanks to you authoritarians deciding for us, we will never know for sure. Comparing countries with similar densities (like Sweden and Finland) and different CO

Thanks to you authoritarians deciding for us, we will never know for sure. Comparing countries with similar densities (like Sweden and Finland) and different COVID policies seems to point out to a resounding no. Most likely we would have had a few more mostly elderly deaths, we won't have ruined the mental health of a generation and we won't have enriched big pharma even more. Even with the pandemic going on it would have been better to suffer during the pandemic than cause a recession. The same people who were hit by lockdowns would be hit 10 times worse by a recession.

Tiktaalik 5y ago
What recession? Employment numbers in my jurisdiction are back to normal and thanks to the sort of government intervention we're talking about very few companies went out of business. Where I live everything is pretty much "back to normal." The government successfully shut down big parts of the economy, kept people alive, and avoided companies going out of business. They did it. If there is any recession, and it remains to be seen if there will be, it won't be because of local factors, but rather because goings on in China and supply issues stemming from our over-reliance on their manufacturing.