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by cowbellemoo 2211 days ago
> Sweden didn't pull any lever at all

Your analysis of their passivity does not acknowledge the assumptions underlying an individualist strategy. The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health problem.

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>The lever Sweden pulled was permitting the atomization of a collective public health problem.

Did that happen? I didn't hear that their health system broke under the load.

To the contrary, everyone else atomized their economies and still had the virus go through their populations.

Per-capita Sweden did about the same as France, and better than Italy, UK, and Spain.