A resounding NO to the “Swedish way”. Compared to similar countries, they are failing badly with it. See DoughtyOne’s CoVid statistic thread for the best data.
What’s the alternative? The virus isn’t going away until mass immunity is gained. The death toll plays out fast “The Curve” or it plays out slow “Flatten the Curve” but the end result will be almost the same.
The lockdowns were intended to slow the spread not stop it.
The rise in death count and hence per capita deaths will start slow and taper off far sooner than the US where we are going to 2 years or so to let it spread. Currently the US has “saved” about 20,000 lives versus Sweden on a population adjusted basis. There is no evidence the lockdowns were the reason for it. It may well be that the US didn’t let its old people die like Sweden did.
All the scary hockey stick graphs didn’t happen and were not going to happen. The use of undefined inconsistent case fatality rates is pure BS.
Sweden’s immediate neighbors Norway, Denmark, Finland (all three embracing the lockdown model) have a combined population of 16.755 million & covid-19 death rate of 905.
Sweden with a population of 10.183 million has a current death rate of 2669. Approx. three times higher in a population that is a third less than the combined population of her three neighbors.