Flu rates are down along with the death rate, ttbn, because of travel restrictions and lockdowns! Meaning transmission rates of the flu and the common cold are way down! And explained as I have by the immutable science of cause and effect! These are usually spread by those with infections, soldiering on and circulating. Giving those two the maximum chance to infect the maximum number of hosts! And it's as simple as that, ttbn.
Alan B.

That's baloney, even for you, Alan

Well I don't know where this bloke earned his professorship but it seems it wasn't at the 'School of Accuracy'.

He charges in with: “So now turn to Sweden, with a population of just under 10 and half million. It never locked down at all.” … “Schools never closed.”

Of course it locked down. Its major industries ceased production for a period and upper secondary schools were forced into online learning from March 18th 2020 until well into June.

Sweden's Universities also imposed quite stringent Covid restrictions:

“Cases of Covid-19 infection are spreading quickly through the Stockholm region. Last week, approximately 42,000 people were tested for Covid-19 and of these, as many as 20.3 per cent were infected, according to Stockholm’s health authority.

Sweden’s national Public Health Authority has responded by placing 13 of the country’s 21 administrative regions under localised restrictions. As a result, most of the country’s universities have told students and staff to work from home if possible, and to avoid any gatherings with people with whom they do not normally associate.
Umeå University released a statement saying that “internal and external meetings, internships, conferences, seminars, and visits must be carried out digitally, or alternatively postponed or cancelled”. The Karolinska Institute, recommends that students and staff “should work from home and cancel business trips except in absolute exceptional cases”.”
http://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-nordics-2020-11-swedish-universities-brace-for-second-lockdown/

Acting as Sweden had done would now see 40,000 Australians dead.

Sweden has fared the worst economically of the Scandinavian countries.

Don't agree with the article.

Sure stats are showing rates of death are low, but govts had no choice but to take measures to avoid many more dying at start when little was known.

I also think how virus was addressed improved over time.

Here is the big lie.

Vaccines are not vaccines.

The supposed covid vaccine jabs don't eliminate covid ... as vaccines have always done.

They only lessen the impact of the covid symptoms, something that most often happens naturally anyway. On most people that is the only outcome and on a few those 'vaccinated' can suffer horrendously.

So much for the actual science.

My experience. I had covid very early on. I had sore head, runny nose and felt unwell for a few days. I social distanced, sat on may boat when not working in my businesses.

Nobody around me had any symptoms.

I now have immunity ... something the vaccinated won't get.

And I'm told I need a vaccine!

Yeah sure. I'm 68 and I watch all the idiots and have concluded, Covid, and the Covid Nazis, well simply, what giant loads of bs!