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For real freedom, move to Scandinavia.
Cant speak to freedoms, but I've never witnessed a more intense social pressure to confirm to social norms than I did there
Where’s Japan sit in the list?
Except when there was corona hysteria, anyways. Even at the peak, I saw only a handful of people wearing masks.
It was not hysteria. Lots of people died. And, yes, Scandinavians wore masks a lot.
Where did you get that from? We definitely didn't, it was quite uncommon to see people with masks, the majority didn't use them ever. Why are you, an American, gaslighting me how it happened in my own country?
Du er ret hurtig til at dømme andre...klovn...
Google says this one says:
Du verkar vara helt besatta av politik från där borta, men okej, visst. Kanske danskar gick överstyr med munkorgen, men det gjorde inte vi svenskar.
Google says this one says:
Og som vi alle så gik det jo også bare fantastisk i Sverige under corona...
Google says this one says:
Ja, det gjorde det ju? Sveriges överdödlighet var ungefär samma som Danmarks, samt att vi fick inte lika hårda ekonomiska konsekvenser eller inskränkning i våra personliga friheter. Eller vad syftar du på?
Google says this one says:
Jeg vil anbefale, at du læser op på det emne før du svarer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9
Og økonomisk er Sverige ikke ligefrem i topform i forhold til Danmark.
So your conclusions are based on a study using data from only the first half of 2020...? You know, when there wasn't any vaccine and it spread through our elderly homes?
So why don't you look at the excess mortality for the entire period for a more nuanced answer, https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/artiklar/2023/olika-matt-pa-overdodlighet-ger-liknande-resultat-for-sverige/ for example? Sweden had even slightly less excess mortality during 2020-2022 than Denmark, despite having very few restrictions.
It's hard to admit afterwards that your country maybe went overboard with restrictions, but the data shows Sweden had better results despite very few people wearing masks. Take it how you want to.
Sounds like the opposite of freedom to me.
Unless you want to protest cultures of sexism, hemophobia, and bigotry , in which case you will get charged with hate crimes for burning some paper.
Yeah fuck blood, all my homies hate blood
Just those disgusting mustard bloods, and the ones with lesser blue bloods.
Every once in a while someone reinvents homestuck
I WOULD PRESS YOUR *UP VOTING* BUTTON TO INCREASE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF POSTING KARMA ON THIS HUMAN DISCUSSION SERVICE BUT I SEE THAT MY *PAST SELF* HAS ALREADY DONE SO.
*EDIT:* I HAD TO EDIT MY MESSAGE FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT BECAUSE MY CHOSEN EMPHASIS WAS NOT INTERPRETED AS INTENDED AND REQUIRED A PRECEDING BACKSLASH TO BE READ WITH AN ASTERISK AND NOT AS TEXT EMPHASIS, OR *ITALICS* AS ONE MIGHT CALL IT.
And stay inside your home....
Why?
They're probably going to say it is cold or dark half the year.
No, just doing what's socially acceptable. Work. Eat. Stay inside. Work. Eat. Stay inside.
You have clearly never been anywhere near Scandinavia.
I just walk around Holland after 7pm Scandinavië is worse....