Why lockdowns are the wrong policy: Swedish expert Prof. Johan Giesecke

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters point to it for the Swedish insider perspective on lockdowns, with some later calling its statements prescient.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

UnHerd

Topic

covid-19 lockdown policy

Format

interview

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

7

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here's an interesting interview with a senior epidemiologist partly responsible for Sweden's unconventional strategy: [VIDEO] TL;DW: Preventing transmission in the long term is impossible and the actual fatality rate is likely on the order of 0.1%, so general lockdowns are pointless and being driven mostly …

• There is a lengthier interview by UnHeard with Professor Johan Giesecke (another experienced epidemiologist) of Sweden on YouTube [0]. It’s worthwhile listening to their perspective. One of the comments he made was that no lockdown would work in democratic countries and the real test will …

• As I see it, lockdowns are not effective and were a massive mistake. You may find this epidemiologist's perspective to be interesting: [VIDEO]