Commentary
Last week The New York Times published an article that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
“How Did No-Mandate Sweden End Up With Such an Average Pandemic?” the headline asked.
Times writer David Wallace-Wells doesn’t accept claims that Sweden—which drew intense criticism for refusing to go into lockdown in 2020—had the lowest excess death rate in Europe, with just 3.3 percent more deaths than expected, the lowest percentage among OECD countries. But he does concede that “it’s hard to argue on the basis of Sweden’s epidemiological experience that its policy course was a disastrous one.”…