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How Sweden stood firm: Anders Tegnell looks back on lockdown

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The Public Inquiry Into COVID

The public inquiry has been absolutely transformed by Isabelle Oakjot's lockdown files. The most egregious and far reaching mistake made in responding to the pandemic has been the level of fear willingly conveyed on the public public were treated like untrustworthy naughty children, not adults. Simon Ruder said this is a guy who was initially used to boost public compliance during the first lockdown but was carried on throughout the crisis. Professor Neil Ferguson use of mathematical models the most pessimistic worst case scenarios if you look back in winter 2020 we were being warned of 6000 daily COVID deaths 10,000 hospitalizations huge numbers being flung around like a line confetti.

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