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I initially supported the popular response to COVID (lockdowns, school closures). I was completely and utterly wrong about this and I lament ever having had those opinions.
I didn't cotton onto the hidden cases of covid and thought it was way more deadly than it should be.
With hindsight, the Swedes were pretty much right ,and iirc their mortality in the end wasn't notably worse than countries that locked down much harder.
Sweden is much less densely populated than most other countries people compare it to and that has a large effect on viral transmission.
Seemingly not; I saw a study in which the death rates/100k were in fact a little higher in rural Sweden than the more urban areas.
Were there many more deaths per 100k in Stockholm as compared to a similar British city?
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There was a point early on where "two weeks to slow the spread" was defensible. Turns out it was the very slipperiest of slopes and over a year later some children weren't allowed in school.
Yeah when it was genuinely an unknown and there was Fog of War I understand the first few weeks, but it being a 2-year saga (and still ongoing for some resolute bunker dwellers) is/was insane.
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I'm in the same boat, although I suspect I became redpilled about the inefficacy and pointlessness of these interventions a lot faster than you did.
I was probably near 100% in favour of them until Summer 2020, when I witnessed both the prevalance of people in open spaces and a lack of rise in cases and I began to question everything I was living through. This was shortly followed by the BLM U-turns and then my faith was severely shaken. By late 2020 I was 90-10 fearing the government rather than the virus and by Jan 2021 I had turned into Patrick Bateman.
I can't remember when the U-turn on masks happened but I think that also contributed to my eventual turn. I certainly never trusted government sources after that.
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