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Not sure what the 'tried with catastrophic end results' is because the post you replied to has been censored, but; Sweden have done massively better than France, UK, USA, in deaths per million, they have even done better than Switzerland, all the while not treating their citizens like criminals. While the west look to shining examples like North Korea and China as what we should be doing.

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> they have even done better than Switzerland

Switzerland is only slightly lower than the US in death rate. I'm not sure the "even" is appropriate here for a country with far more deaths per capita than Austria and Germany, especially considering it also experienced a second wave far more fatal than virtually any other country.

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&r...

If you had to look at this comparison without knowing; you couldn't tell which country maintained civil liberties. And yes there are countries that fared better, and countries that fared worse.

https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/#deceased&d...

Sweden's second wave seems dwarfed by both France and Switzerland in this comparison.. I mean if you have to squint and twist the stats to make Sweden look bad, then maybe we gave up all our rights unnecessarily.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Overall, they have the 25th worst deaths per million on earth, UK is 12th, USA is 14th and France is 16th worst. They didn't do badly. And most all countries that did worse, did so while stripping every right and liberty off their citizens.

These posts are not censored. If you want to see them, you can turn on the option to see them (‘showdead’)in your settings.

Thank you, i did not realize there was such a setting and was getting fed up of all the [flagged] comments.

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