The director of the Norwegian public health agency, Camilla Stoltenberg, has the guts and integrity to admit what most other leaders don’t have the persona to concede: “We made a mistake.”
Her agency published a report with a striking conclusion: the Wuhan-coronavirus never spreaded as fast as had been feared, and when the lockdowns were ordered, the virus was already retreating naturally.
While most government officials still cling to outdated models and data from months ago, or point to artificially inflated numbers (as many countries, including the U.S. count every person who dies with Covid or even just Covid-like symptoms, as a Covid-death, not just people who died of Covid), Norway is doing the right thing and coming clean with its citizens.
This is important, because for one thing, there is no point in keeping restrictions on place that are not needed. For another, should another epidemic come along at some point (there are several different flu strains going around every winter, for example), it is important not to repeat mistakes that have ruined millions of businesses and are projected to cause over 100 Million people to starve to death this year, according to the UN (more than ten times as many as without the shutdowns).
Every mayor, governor, prime minister or president should learn a lesson from Ms. Stoltenberg.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/norway-health-chief-lockdown-was-not-needed-to-tame-covid