Allan Milne Lees
1 min readSep 25, 2020

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The Swedish economy isn't insulated from the rest of the world, and as the rest of the world committed massive self-harm it's not surprising Sweden suffered. But it suffered much, much less than economies that rushed into lockdown. Furthermore, while Sweden's initial mortality rate was high, we're seeing that Sweden's mortality rate is now effectively zero and has been for months, while countries yo-yoing between lockdowns and openings continue to experience bursts of mortality which ultimately will end up being the same (after adjustments for age of population, percentage of very sick people kept barely alive by modern medicine, etc.) as Sweden. Estonia's demographics aren't identical to those of Sweden, so a straight comparison isn't valid. Furthermore, when we look at mortality data from June to September we see that Sweden is experiencing slightly fewer deaths than normal, which indicates that those who died in April simply died a few weeks earlier than they would otherwise have done. Destroying the world's economy and thereby pushing 250 million people into starvation and penury, plus another 1.25 billion into acute financial distress seems a very strange thing to do in order to keep a few wealthy older white people alive for a few extra weeks. Just because most of those who are dying of starvation have darker skins than ours, and the fact that their plight remains unreported by our mass media, doesn't make it morally acceptable.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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