There will be a lot of people answering this the obvious way, but what strikes me is that *even now* there’s not enough immunity from prior infection in Sweden to stop this happening.
https://twitter.com/gyamey/status/1391528801247678466
Whatever else that means, it suggests that population protection through infection induced immunity is not going to happen without bad consequences. The idea might have been defensible at the start when we were more uncertain about severity, it hasn’t been for some time
If people compare per capita mortality in Sweden with elsewhere note that an appropriate comparison is the other Nordic countries, all of which took a very different route, rather than other European countries with their own stories
Finally, however you feel about it, remember that Sweden did not 'do nothing'. There was a strategy that you can agree or disagree with, and there were interventions. It wasn't completely laissez faire. Mistakes get made, the key thing is to learn from them going forward
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