From Tom Woods today:
Let's begin with some news out of forbidden Sweden.
According to Reuters, "Sweden, which has shunned the strict lockdowns that have choked much of the global economy, emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries, an analysis of official data sources showed."
The sources studied included 30 countries. Some 21 of them had higher excess-death percentages than Sweden.
And then we get this interesting final sentence: "Sweden’s official COVID-19 death toll is more than 13,000, although some people may have died from other causes than the disease."
Wait, what's that? Deaths attributed to COVID-19 may actually result from "other causes than the disease"? We're allowed to say that now?
Now, to Arizona, where the governor is getting raked over the coals by local politicians and some doctors for lifting statewide COVID restrictions. You know everything they're going to say, so I won't bother repeating any of it.
These same people, as the heroic Ian Miller points out, repeatedly demanded interventions, never got them, the curve fell dramatically without them, and nobody ever followed up or apologized or wondered how that could have happened:
(Source: nytimes .com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html)
Also courtesy of Ian, Rhode Island won all kinds of praise for its draconian policies, but then no second thoughts or nuance or any kind when cases rose 2825% in four months:
(Source: nytimes .com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html)
And finally:
Not too long ago I wrote to you about the heroic Kathryn Huwig in Ohio, whose COVID analytics have been excellent from the very start.
I wrote to tell you about her appearance at the State House. In her testimony, she held up a chart of ICU bed usage in Ohio since March 2020.
The X-axis, indicating time, was omitted on purpose.
She noted that Ohio's alleged "public health" authorities had picked out certain events and certain state policies as being significant with respect to COVID, either in terms of spread or mitigation.
All right, she said. If these things -- like Thanksgiving and Christmas (which should have led to an explosion in COVID numbers, according to the "public health" establishment), or the implementation of the mask mandate and the curfew (which should have led to lower numbers) -- really had such a significant effect that severe interventions into people's lives were justified, we should surely be able to identify them on the graph even without the help of the dates.
So go ahead, she said. Show me on the graph where the curfew went into effect, the mask mandate was instituted, when businesses opened in the spring, etc.
And of course it's impossible to find these events on the chart, because none of them appear to accomplish anything.
I decided: I have to get her on my show.
And I did it:
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