{"id":7992,"date":"2020-04-18T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2020-04-18T11:51:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:51:36","slug":"swedish-expert-why-lockdowns-are-the-wrong-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7992","title":{"rendered":"Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/thepost\/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden\/\">Freddie Sayers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"8\" style=\"max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"9\" style=\"max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>Professor<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/strategic-and-technical-advisory-group-for-infectious-hazards\/members\/biographies\/en\/index2.html\" data-reader-unique-id=\"10\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%\">Johan Giesecke<\/a>, one of the world\u2019s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Sayers: That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor&nbsp;Johan Giesecke, one of the world\u2019s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}