Sweden has a strong well being systems. People stays at home every winter during the flu seasons. In any given meeting there are a couple of employees working from home because they may have the flu.
To compare the social protections of Sweden that allow citizens to stay home when sick ALWAYS, not just for the current pandemic, with the USA approach of come-to-work-or-you-are-fired is not reasonable.
The USA should pay more to their employees, have better healthcare coverage, give paid leave, and forbid free lay offs. And then, it would be in a position to postpone, lets see for how long, the shutdowns in a pandemic.
Sweden without lock down: Workplaces -32% New York with lock downs: Workplaces -48%
I have the fear that the same Americans that want the "Swedish approach to CoVid19" are the ones against the social safety nets that has made it possible.
- https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-04-17_SE_Mobil...
- https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-04-11_US_New_Y...