Whatever explains the differences between Sweden and the other Nordic countries during the past few weeks, I think it's pretty clear that it doesn't have much to do with policy. 
Some of you point out that mobility data don't necessarily capture everything that's affected by policy, which is fair enough, but the reality is that policy has been very similar across Nordic countries for a while and if anything has even been more stringent in Sweden recently.
If you want to claim that it's policy, you should be able to pinpoint some specific things other Nordic countries are doing that Sweden isn't and which could plausibly explain the difference, but I don't think you can.
(By the way, there is a mistake in the first chart above, the y-axis should be about cases per million, not deaths per million.)
Also, by comparing Sweden to its neighbors, I don't mean to endorse the view that it's methodological preferable. As I explained repeatedly, I think this view is profoundly misguided, and I think this shouldn't even be controversial.
https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1325535422232072193
I just want to point out that, while the people who make that comparison because they endorse this view continue to ascribe differences between Sweden and its neighbors to policy, it's not a very plausible for what happened during the past few weeks.
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