> The theory of lockdown, after all, is pretty niche, deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested. It’s not Sweden that’s conducting a mass experiment. It’s everyone else.

I don't buy that. China did a lockdown, and (at least officially) it has contained the disease. Also there are buckets of models and studies that support this course of action.

> We can expect our Covid-19 death figures to rise faster than our neighbours’ — still all within the confines of a bad winter flu, but these graphs can scare people.

Coronavirus is not 'like the flu'. There is so much data disproving this I won't even bother linking them. Do a Google search 'is coronavirus like the flu'.

> They publish their own models of the virus spread. It shows how many people will need hospital care: the system, they say, can cope. And when asked, they say they don’t think Imperial College has made a better call. > This Swedish exceptionalism is about principle, not epidemiology. > yes, they make us different to Italy and Spain

I feel like there is this narrative floating around that blames countries for their fate regarding Coronavirus. Sure, governments have done a better or worse job dealing with the outbreak, and different places were better or worse prepared. But the veiled message that I get is "Italy and Spain got so many deaths and their economy got wrecked because they are inferior".