What Tegnell showed above all was courage. He essentially stuck with textbook pandemic mitigation while most of the world panicked and abandoned it. Tegnell is a highly intelligent man, but it didn’t take a superior intellect to see that the frenzied, ad hoc measures being taken in much of the US and the world didn’t make sense, and that the costs of these measures would likely exceed the benefits by an order of magnitude or more (if there were any real benefits at all).

“It was as if the world had gone mad, and everything we had discussed was forgotten,” Tegnell said in a podcast with Swedish Radio on Wednesday. “The cases became too many and the political pressure got too strong. And then Sweden stood there rather alone.”

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