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Well, other than having ten times as many deaths as the other Nordic countries: https://www.statista.com/topics/6123/coronavirus-covid-19-in...

I feel like lives lost is perhaps the better metric of success.

No. Most of Sweden’s deaths were due to poor management at the beginning. They shoved the elderly into old folks homes with Covid positive patients.

They didn’t. Although they didn’t protect the elderly in the beginning, which is official.