The most infuriating thing about the Sweden situation to me is that Anders Tegnell has claimed that no country has managed to stop or slow down the spread of the virus. Even if you dismiss China's claims due to government meddling (fair enough), Tegnell was being ignorant of a number of other Asian countries at the time he said this.

I know that I'm somewhat jumping to conclusions, but this feels so much like typical Eurocentric ignorance of other parts of the world whenever the latter manages to handle something better than them that it makes my blood boil. Just swallow your pride and acknowledge the findings of others, dammit.

In general there are multiple Asian countries with recent experiences with these kinds of outbreaks - you know, SARS? Would it be so hard to look at their conclusions of which methods of handling past outbreaks worked and didn't work? To learn from their mistakes so we don't have to repeat them in our arrogance?