Covid: The "Swedish way" opened the door to hell

[AribertDeckers]

11.3.2026
Covid: The "Swedish way" opened the door to hell
*Healthy life expectancy* drops from 73 years to 66


https://x.com/TriciaDearborn/status/2031504581306495147

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Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn

Sweden's response to Covid was pretty low-key, e.g. it kept primary schools open and did not recommend masks for the public.
How's it working out for them?

*Healthy life expectancy* drops from 73 years to 66

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Absolutely staggering drop in Healthy Life Expectancy in Sweden according to Eurostat.

From 73.3 years of healthy life expectancy down to 66.2.

*Sweden*.

Can no one understand how much trouble we're in?  x.com/RWittenbrink/s...
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https://x.com/jukka235/status/2031360391616540864

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
Mar 9
In Sweden, 10% of healthy life years have been lost since the pandemic began.

That's one out of every ten years gone.
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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
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Mar 9
Here is the post.
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Avslöjar @avslojar
Mar 9
Replying to @avslojar Eurostat, förväntade friska levnadsår vid födsel. Norden.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/product/page/hlth_hlye$defaultview

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
Mar 9
The Swedish model: effectively, Sweden turned the entire adult population into smokers.
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https://chatgpt.com/share/69af3267-97bc-8009-b6d3-e16a381464b1
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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
Mar 9
The Swedish model resulted in a superior GDP performance in the first months of the pandemic.

Cost: 10% reduction in the length of healthy life (possibly forever).
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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235

May 9, 2020
Replying to @jukka235
Herd immunity is your #1 choice because of the irresistible economics as you can keep the society open. All you need to do is to convince everyone.
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#covid19sverige  #COVID2019sweden  #CoronaSweden  #covid19finland #Koronavirusfi  #COVID2019 #COVID__19 #Covid_19

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235

In Sweden, people are now ill for the last 84.1 − 66.2 = 17.9 years of their lives on average, according to Eurostat.

That's an 81% increase from 2019, when people were ill for 83.2 - 73.3 = 9.9 years on average at the end of life.
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2:23 PM · Mar 10, 2026
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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
Mar 10
The long-term effects of how the pandemic was managed in 2020-2022 are now starting to show up in the data. And it wasn't just the lack of lockdowns in 2020:
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Tom Whipple @whippletom
Mar 10
If this is true (and I've seen it a lot today), surely it would be the same in loads of other countries? The point about what happened in Sweden wasn't that they let it rip, it was that they managed to control it with less severe measures (and had similar infection rates to UK)? x.com/jukka235/statu...

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235
Mar 10
It wasn't just the lack of lockdowns in 2020 (continued):

– schools for 6-16 year olds were kept open for almost the entire 2020-2022 period, allowing viruses to spread

- most measured had already been lifted by the time the first Omicron wave struck

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Ilkka Rauvola @jukka235

Data sources:
Life expectancy at birth (EU): 
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_mlexpec/default/table?lang=en

Healthy life years (HLY) (EU):
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/hlth_hlye/default/table?lang=en
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