Do Covid-19 lockdowns work? Almost countless factors will vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, be it countries, states, counties, cities, or whatever. That said, a comparison of one country with essentially no lockdown and another with perhaps the world’s harshest and longest (indeed, still ongoing and officially called “The New Normal”) may be instructive. In brief, we have Sweden that basically got it over with quickly and not without pain, and the Philippines where maybe initial cases and deaths were dampened but is now in a horrible fantasy that could be called “The NeverEnding Lockdown” despite a population that demographically is highly-Covid resistant.
Rather than joining most nations hell-bent on becoming the first to wipe out an airborne virus by quarantining the healthy, Sweden emphasized personal responsibility, social distancing and good hygiene to slow the disease to ensure medical facilities wouldn’t be overwhelmed. In that, it clearly succeeded. Otherwise the country simply allowed people to become infected in the knowledge that one way or another that’s what happens.
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