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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
In April of 2020, Sweden's epidemic began to recede at the same time as other European countries' epidemics, despite no lockdown. So why did people, including the 'experts', continue calling for lockdowns?
Throughout the pandemic, those in favour of more restrictions have argued that restrictions drive behaviour and behaviour drives infections. Yet rising mobility frequently coincides with falling case numbers.
The mainstream narrative says that each of England's lockdowns arrested a steep upward trend in daily infections that would have otherwise continued unabated. However, there are several reasons to doubt this narrative.
One explanation for plummeting case numbers is that the full effects of 'Freedom Day' have yet to appear in the data. However, the Google mobility index shows there was no sudden change in behaviour on July 19th.
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