News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
After 32 months, Sweden – the country that famously rejected lockdowns and school closures in spring 2020 – has the lowest cumulative excess mortality in the world, in a damning indictment of lockdown orthodoxy.
Anders Tegnell is leaving his post as Chief Epidemiologist of Sweden to take up a role at the World Health Organisation. But was he pushed?
Sweden's inquiry into its handling of the pandemic is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it comes out against lockdowns, but on the other hand, it criticises the Government for not being quicker to impose restrictions.
Unlike SAGE's Prof Graham Medley, Sweden's Dr Anders Tegnell provides his Government with scenarios other than the worst case.
A reader of the Daily Sceptic has written a guest post comparing the U.K.'s enthusiastic, money-no-object embrace of a contact-tracing app with the much more cautious approach of Sweden. Result? No 'pingdemic' in Sweden.
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