Think of the trillions of dollars wasted and lives diminished or lost because the world didn’t adopt the Swedish approach. From Ian Miller at ianmsc.substack.com:
Even The WHO has to acknowledge reality
Throughout the pandemic, Sweden has faced an enormous amount of criticism and international pressure due to their willingness to stick to established public health principles and pre-pandemic planning.
Instead of following the incessant, anti-science groupthink that became part of a virus-induced political religion, Sweden chose instead to not impose the strict lockdowns that Dr. Fauci recently claimed were not tried in the US.
Sweden never mandated masks be worn in indoor public spaces, correctly identifying the lack of evidence supporting their use.
They kept schools open in defiance of teacher’s unions and politically motivated “experts” in the United States who advocated for a policy with zero benefits and tremendous harms.
Essentially, Sweden followed the actual science and not The Science™, with the requisite trademark and capital letters. That would include the guides that were prepared prior to the panic, inaccurate modeling, political motivations and crisis obsession took over.