[Jeff Higgins]

From the article linked above:

Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn expressed confusion over the rising infections in Spain, saying: “There aren’t many other countries in the European Union to have adopted such tough measures to contain the first wave.”

I'm starting to think that when the dust settles over all of this, if we are able to conduct a completely honest, unbiased, non-political debriefing of how this all played out, we will see that the countries that imposed the strictest lockdown measures will have suffered the most prolonged battles with this virus.

Mind you, I believe it is still far, far too early to make any call whatsoever, but it does look like Sweden is emerging as the early "winner". The panic driven shutdowns across Europe, and the politically driven shutdowns here at home, are looking less and less justifiable as we work our way through this thing.

Unfortunately, with so many of our Governors having gone all-in, there is little hope that they will ever admit they may have been "wrong". There is little hope that they will look at the results in Sweden and alter their approaches based upon the plainly observable evidence that Sweden's inaction was at least as good as, and in many cases better than, those who enforced even the most severe restrictions.

We are now approaching 200,000 deaths here in the U.S. A terrible number, for sure, but does anyone remember what we were told the total would be if we "did nothing"? I remember estimates as high as four million deaths. And now we can clearly see a country that, relatively, "did nothing" while we locked down, and they actually did better than we did. Maybe it's time for our politicians that pushed so hard for these now demonstrably ineffective lockdowns to man (or woman) up and admit they were wrong... And if anyone honestly believes that is ever going to happen...