"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lying About Lockdowns

Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"
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Sources:
• Lawrence Wright’s “The Plague Year” (lawrencewright.com/books/the-plague-year-ameri…)
• The 2019 WHO report (iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/978…)
• 30‐day mortality following COVID‐19 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115089)
• COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/impac…)
• Policy Interventions, Social Distancing, and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7833753/pdf/m…)
• What we can learn from Sweden (science.orf.at/stories/3229029)
• A review of the Swedish policy response to COVID-19 (cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core…)
• How Sweden approached the COVID‐19 pandemic (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9538368)
• The first eight months of Sweden’s COVID‐19 strategy (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7537539)
• The Swedish COVID-19 Response Is a Disaster (time.com/5899432/sweden-coronovirus-disaster)
• Excess mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11293825)
• Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020 (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7687454)
• How Sweden approached the COVID-19 pandemic (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apa.16535)
• Comparisons of all-cause mortality between European countries and regions (ons.gov.uk/Peoplepopulationandcommunity/Births…)
• Jonathan Howard’s “We Want Them Infected.” (redhawkpublications.com/We-Want-Them-Infected-…)
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2021 (cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-04.pdf)
• Stay-at-home orders associate with subsequent decreases in COVID-19 cases and fatalities in the United States (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34111123)
• Did the Timing of State Mandated Lockdown Affect the Spread of COVID-19? (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8357543/pdf/j…)
• US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic Deaths (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11282449)
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