{"id":215082,"date":"2020-10-16T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215082"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:33:14","slug":"swedish-health-chief-said-country-avoided-lockdown-to-prevent-pandemic-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215082","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Health Chief Said Country Avoided Lockdown to Prevent \u201cPandemic Fatigue\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Joseph Watson \u2013 SUMMIT News Oct 13<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_214719\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sweden-decling-coronavirus-death-rate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214719\" class=\"wp-image-214719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sweden-decling-coronavirus-death-rate-768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sweden-decling-coronavirus-death-rate-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sweden-decling-coronavirus-death-rate-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Sweden-decling-coronavirus-death-rate.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-214719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweden&#8217;s decling coronavirus death rate. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Swedish health chief Olivia Wigzell explained that her country didn\u2019t impose the kind of draconian coronavirus lockdown seen in other European countries in order to prevent the public from developing \u201cpandemic fatigue.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden chose to go for herd immunity by refusing to impose a hard lockdown, meaning bars, restaurants, gyms, workplaces and schools remained open and vulnerable people were told to shield while mandatory mask rules were avoided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite the mainstream media predicting that this would lead to massive fatalities, Sweden has recorded under 6,000 coronavirus deaths and now has the lowest death rate in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Scandinavian country\u2019s GDP fared better than the rest of Europe and now large segments of the population have developed herd immunity, reducing the impact of any potential \u201csecond wave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Illustrating how the country is already virtually back to normal, a young woman posted a video of herself boarding a train in Stockholm showing minimal social distancing and hardly anyone wearing masks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi, this is a short video to show Stockholm today as people around the world should see life is normal here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7TagOXczUf\">pic.twitter.com\/7TagOXczUf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jon Kirby (@SvitlanaNosul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SvitlanaNosul\/status\/1315697055331950592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now the director general of Sweden\u2019s National Board of Health and Welfare reveals that one of the reasons the Swedish government chose not to impose a harsh lockdown was to prevent its population from development \u201cpandemic fatigue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe did not choose the path of a complete lockdown of society, because we had other arguments for a systematic response to a pandemic,\u201d said Olivia Wigzell during the Pandemic 2020: Challenges, Solutions, Consequences conference, which was held in Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe were very afraid, we feared that people would develop such a pandemic fatigue, that people would get tired of restrictions. But in Sweden, practically everyone followed the recommendations,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sweden\u2019s health care system was never overwhelmed, even at the height of the pandemic, and the country is now in a better position than any other country on the continent, virtually all of which continue to follow disastrous lockdown policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>ALERT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship it is crucial that we stay in touch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">I need you to sign up for my free newsletter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/newsletter\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Also, I urgently need your financial support <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/paul-joseph-watson\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/13\/swedish-health-chief-said-country-avoided-lockdown-to-prevent-pandemic-fatigue\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not being publicised in the mainstream media, but without draconian lockdowns Sweden now has the lowest Covid-19 death rate in the whole of Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215084,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215082\/revisions\/215084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}