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by zanfr 378 days ago
Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

N95s (and above) definitely work, so does filtered air. But sweden has a long standing history of eugenics

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> Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

Is it? There were some very scathing attacks on their COVID policy back in the first two years of the pandemic, but when you look at more recent retrospectives that have the benefit of hindsight, it seems that they didn't actually do worse than countries which went full lockdown.

As opposed to the US? Like sending infected elderly people to elderly homes to infect more people?
That's your perspective. What if I were to demand it be silenced and only opinions praising its policy were shown?

Let's talk it over in the open, it's not perfect but it's the best way.