We started out with Sweden& #39;s plan; Sweden& #39;s plan was accepted as THE WAY to deal with pandemics before March.

We were told that we needed to "pause" to make sure we had enough hospital capacity.

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6 months later, we have plenty of hospital capacity and an untold number of people dying from lack of medical care for non-COVID issues.

Nobody in the U.S. died from COVID because of a lack of hospital capacity, but plenty are dying because fear kept them from care.

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The lockdowns, the school closures, the masks have secondary effects that we will be discovering for decades to come.

There is plenty of evidence that lockdowns delay deaths but don& #39;t save lives in the long run. In fact, they cost lives from other causes.

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Sweden is done. Many areas of the U.S. are done. We will still see cases because you don& #39;t "defeat" viruses. COVID will always be with us, in some form.

It is time to fully reopen and let people decide what level of risk they& #39;re comfortable with.

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But forcing all of society to conform to a desire for zero cases is NOT a low-risk strategy. It is and will continue to be devastating. I can& #39;t say this strongly enough. We are damaging our children, our young people, our old people, and our businesses.

This. Must. Stop.

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