Comments on: Sweden had a lower excess death rate last year than most other countries in Europe https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548418 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:51:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548418 Our congregation was allowed sing in church last Sunday (still masked, of course, which makes for a lot of hypoxia if you breathe like you are supposed to). We sit in every-other pew, widely spaced, so I faced out into the aisle to mitigate any escaping viruses (which I don’t have because I’m not sick).

I will let you know the results of our experiment.
If I disappear for more than a week, then something bad happened.
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]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548248 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:35:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548248 Perhaps early, inexpensive, effective, low-risk treatments (e.g. HCQ cocktail, Imvermectin protocol, Vitamin D) to mitigate disease progression and aid body functions

]]> By: n.n https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548247 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:32:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548247 Other factors, of course. Also, immunity through exposure normalizing community immunity (i.e. mitigation of exponential blooms) protecting individuals at higher risk (e.g. “fat is beautiful” is a comorbidity).

]]> By: narfan https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548236 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:54:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548236 Definitely not an eyeroll for most people out there when you have the director of the CDC holding back tears during a briefing while stating she has a feeling of “impending doom” about a “fourth wave” of the “variants”:

https://www.axios.com/cdc-fourth-wave-db0a4d6e-3942-4719-9743-62912e5557e0.html

These are the headlines and news snippets most people ingest and believe, hence the associated uptick in goggle-wearing, 5+ mask-wearing, and hazmat gear. And why wouldn’t they believe her? She is the director of the CDC–doesn’t get more “science!” than that.

]]> By: Art+Deco https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548221 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:50:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548221 The world figure skating championships were in Stockholm this weekend. It was striking to see the contrast between a cheering arena chock-full of maskless people in Sweden and the huge largely empty arenas with a smattering of masked-up fans watching the NCAA basketball tournament here.

We’d benefit if college athletics consisted of club sports, if athletic scholarships disappeared, and if the Division I teams were each maintained as farm teams for one or another professional franchise. They could buy the extant athletic facilities where these Division I teams now play or they could rent them from the institution. The players, of course, would be salaried employees.

The ā€œdangerous variantsā€ narrative has taken hold, and lockdowns and masking are never going to end in this country.

[eyeroll].

]]> By: narfan https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548218 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:32:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548218 The world figure skating championships were in Stockholm this weekend. It was striking to see the contrast between a cheering arena chock-full of maskless people in Sweden and the huge largely empty arenas with a smattering of masked-up fans watching the NCAA basketball tournament here.

In my city, this month, I’ve seen more and more people wearing heavy-duty goggles and 5+ masks or full-on hazmat masks while walking alone outside.

The “dangerous variants” narrative has taken hold, and lockdowns and masking are never going to end in this country.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548217 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:16:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548217 I have a weekly venue for this. The current issue was to be the Georgia shootings. I noted that the author(s) said it had been too late to work in the Boulder massacre.
I said I’d been anticipating how we should not condemn a group based on the actions of one solitary member of the group. But apparently we’re going to talk about the Georgia shooting.

That might have been too subtle.

]]> By: I am Spartacus https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548211 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:25:12 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548211 I endorse Zaphod viewpoint. Reality is going to bite at some point. The wedge point is when the target complains about something be it gas prices, another war or COVID passports. Keep telling them “You should be happy…you voted for it.” Do not absolve them of their responsibility in the mess.

Walk away happy. Don’t let them steal your joy. Positivity is catching.

Change is a process and not a moment.

]]> By: Zaphod https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548210 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:32:59 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548210 @Richard Aubrey:

No need to change their minds… but every need to raise their cognitive dissonance and stress levels. Turnabout is fair. Anything cheap and easy which messes with the Enemy’s collective head at this late hour is good to have, no? Only caveat I can think of is that one should not be outing oneself as a deplorable to random strangers — Grey Rock with them. But Lefty Wine Aunts are fair game.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2021/03/27/sweden-had-a-lower-excess-death-rate-last-year-than-most-other-countries-in-europe/#comment-2548209 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:42:02 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=105656#comment-2548209 Spartacus. Wouldn’t work. The facts are as she needs them to be. Period. You presume she is rational on this. She is not.
The closest she comes to changing her mind is that the issue no longer is an issue and she, in effect, waves her hand and….”I don’t know anything about it.”

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