Texas Has the Fewest Personal Freedoms

Salamendacious@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 894 points – Texas has the fewest personal freedoms
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Texas was found to be the state with the fewest personal freedoms, according to the Cato Institute's new Freedom Index.

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Cant speak to freedoms, but I've never witnessed a more intense social pressure to confirm to social norms than I did there

Except when there was corona hysteria, anyways. Even at the peak, I saw only a handful of people wearing masks.

It was not hysteria. Lots of people died. And, yes, Scandinavians wore masks a lot.

And, yes, Scandinavians wore masks a lot.

Where did you get that from? We definitely didn't, it was quite uncommon to see people with masks, the majority didn't use them ever. Why are you, an American, gaslighting me how it happened in my own country?

Du er ret hurtig til at dømme andre...klovn...

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You are quite quick to judge others...clown...

Du verkar vara helt besatta av politik från där borta, men okej, visst. Kanske danskar gick överstyr med munkorgen, men det gjorde inte vi svenskar.

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You seem to be totally obsessed with politics from over there, but okay, sure. Maybe the Danes went overboard with the muzzle, but we Swedes didn't.

Og som vi alle så gik det jo også bare fantastisk i Sverige under corona...

det gik jo også bare fantastisk i Sverige under corona...

Ja, det gjorde det ju? Sveriges överdödlighet var ungefär samma som Danmarks, samt att vi fick inte lika hårda ekonomiska konsekvenser eller inskränkning i våra personliga friheter. Eller vad syftar du på?

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No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

Jeg vil anbefale, at du læser op på det emne før du svarer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95699-9

Og økonomisk er Sverige ikke ligefrem i topform i forhold til Danmark.

So your conclusions are based on a study using data from only the first half of 2020...? You know, when there wasn't any vaccine and it spread through our elderly homes?

So why don't you look at the excess mortality for the entire period for a more nuanced answer, https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/artiklar/2023/olika-matt-pa-overdodlighet-ger-liknande-resultat-for-sverige/ for example? Sweden had even slightly less excess mortality during 2020-2022 than Denmark, despite having very few restrictions.

It's hard to admit afterwards that your country maybe went overboard with restrictions, but the data shows Sweden had better results despite very few people wearing masks. Take it how you want to.

Sounds like the opposite of freedom to me.