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and yet Sweeden is doing very well. What is your long term goal/solution exactly? This thing isn't going away. Keeping people locked up delays infections, it doesn't stop it.

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the US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...

Sweden’s voluntary measures were/are likely followed better than the patchwork of measures in the US. I’m not sure they can be used as an example of anything that’s possible in the US.

Also, this whole ‘locked up’ straw man is growing tiresome. There is a large gradient between locked up and going out like there is no pandemic.

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