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# Six Months before the Truth Caught up with COVID-19 Doom-Mongers
- URL: https://goodoil.news/six-months-before-the-truth-caught-up-with-covid-19-doom-mongers/
- Published: 2020-10-24T23:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-25T00:41:23.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

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A dismaying aspect of the Western response to COVID-19 is that it has been six months before some Governments and public institutions started listening to a wider range of advice and understood that they must critically assess advice to decide what is in the fullest public interest.

Even then, the ‘listening’ has been piecemeal and slow. **And not at all in New Zealand.**

The preference for heeding the warnings of doom-mongers with the worst numbers is somewhat understandable, but it is inexcusable that leaders failed to listen to other advice, and to judge from the data for themselves.

- Boris Johnson was briefed by the architect of Sweden’s no-lockdown policy, Anders Tegnell, before announcing new coronavirus restrictions this week.
- The new restrictions, which include a curfew on bars and restaurants, fell short of much tougher measures reportedly being pushed by his own scientific advisers.
- Tegnell was the architect of Sweden’s decision not to impose a full lockdown earlier this year.
- Sweden has gone on to record a much higher death rate than its neighbours.
- However, current data suggests the Nordic country is not experiencing a second wave, unlike the UK.

> Prime Minister Boris Johnson was advised by Anders Tegnell, the man behind Sweden’s decision not to impose a full coronavirus lockdown, before rejecting tougher new restrictions for the United Kingdom.  
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> businessinsider.com.au/boris-johnson-briefed-sweden-scientist-anders-tegnell-coronavirus-rules-2020

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