Sweden’s ‘inconvenient COVID victory’
The articles and TV segments that hurled invective laced with mockery at Sweden for its libertarian approach to the pandemic haven’t aged well, which likely explains the media’s sudden lack of interest in the topic, writes a Swedish journalist.
Johan Anderberg, the author of “The Herd,” a bestselling history of Sweden’s COVID-19 experience, writes in a column in the website Unherd that for “anyone still interested, the results were impossible to deny.”
By the end of 2021, he points out, 56 countries had registered more deaths per capita from COVID-19 than Sweden.
“With regard to the restrictions that the rest of the world had put so much faith in — school closures, lockdowns, face masks, mass testing — Sweden had more or less gone in the opposite direction,” writes Anderberg.
“Yet its results were not noticeably different from those of other countries.”
Even when it was becoming clear that the political measures deployed against the virus were of limited value, few nation’s changed course.- READ MORE
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