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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with this example is that Sweden is a small, culturally homogenous, fairly wealthy country in a northern climate. Would the same approach have the same outcome in the US? Probably not.

Like questions I'd want answered include:

- Did high conscientiousness among Swedish people result in voluntary social distancing during Covid peaks even without lockdowns?

- Did the climate in Sweden, with just a short summer season, allow Sweden to avoid the worst of the pandemic because people there socialize less outside their families in cold months anyway?

- Did Sweden's strong social safety net play a role?

I do tend to think that hard, very restrictive lockdowns likely have less of an effect on death rates than we think, and also that prolonged lockdowns have real costs that we are still reluctant to acknowledge in many cases.[/quote]

I agree with all of this.

And I refuse to be angry. I wish we could study the effects of the lockdowns, be objective, and learn some lessons, but that's not where we are as a people. I think we are doing more damage to ourselves by being angry over something we can't change now. It's not productive. If there was any area where we should have admitted failure it was with schools. I would like to have seen something structural done to address learning loss.  [/quote]

This is a really great post! We should absolutely study the response objectively and learn some lessons for other crisis situations. I also agree the loss of learning is basically being ignored years later and many students are still struggling.[/quote]

DP and I agree.  I have posted this many times on these stupid threads where people are still raving about "lockdowns" and the COVID response.  That is done.  We should look at it and plan for next time, sure (with some acknowledgement that next time will be a different virus that may target different people in different ways but...I digress.  The whiners don't want to think about that).

But what is more important is to focus on helping people in the here and now.

But you know what, the complainers don't have answers for that, and many of them are conservatives who balk at spending money on anything that reeks of a public service, so instead they come on here and just demonize about Democrats, their favorite boogeymen.  [/quote]

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