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2022-02-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Sweden Declares the Pandemic to be "Over"

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-10 03:08|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 UK
SE
NL
DK
IE
NO
CH
NJ, CT, even F[ing]NY (!!) all recognize it's GAME OVER. Endemic now.

But not California or the rest of the Left Coast. Time to sever those assholes from the rest of the civilized world

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-10 06:33|| 2022-02-10 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 To be fair the Big Four holdouts of COVIDian state-imposed insanity remain Germany, France, Austria and Italy. The indispensable eugyppius has a wonderful roundup of first-hand dispatches from all over the world on his substack.

Must be something about the Napoleonic - Hapsburg - Hohenzollern legacies...

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-10 06:38|| 2022-02-10 06:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Despite being on the receiving end of an intense backlash, the country’s approach of refusing to impose harsh lockdown restrictions has been completely vindicated.

Unlike other Europeans countries such as France and Spain which imposed draconian lockdown rules, Sweden’s COVID-19 death rate is comparatively better and the country is exiting the pandemic while other nations are refusing to lift restrictions for at least months more.

Recalls Robert Conquest's vindication -- and the book he wanted to publish

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-10 08:29|| 2022-02-10 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Next crisis, let's lock down all the politicians and "experts." I recommend ball-gags instead of masks.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-10 08:31|| 2022-02-10 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The monthly email from the local hospital system had the traditional heart attack/diabetes/etc health stuff at the top. Covid things were down at the bottom which suggests things are winding down.

Reported cases are up, likely due to passing out tests like lollipops, but few deaths, mostly with the usual co-morbidities.

Posted by SteveS 2022-02-10 09:28|| 2022-02-10 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Dad, how dumb was it?

Well, I looked up Sextuple in the online Merriam Webster, and:

Examples of sextuple in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Covid-19 deaths will likely sextuple, from 3,000 to more than 18,000.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2021

The Scandinavian country did not enforce strict mask mandates, with senior epidemiologist Anders Tengell asserting that face coverings were in fact "dangerous" because they provided a false sense of security while failing to stop the spread of the virus.

This has been touched on here at Rantburg; that if there were to be a serious air contamination, chemical, biological, whatever, everyone who believed in magic masks will be the first to check out.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-10 10:43|| 2022-02-10 10:43|| Front Page Top

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