[blub]

Countries have various institutions and organisations tracking and reporting on the virus within their borders. Then there's the press and the locals publishing info on various channels.

One doesn't need to set foot in Sweden to form an opinion about how things are going.

[heracles]

You are right. I meant to point out that for some significant proportion of people, Sweden are in these circumstances not a country, but a tool to prove their point. And unless one is careful, which some people are, one will reach whatever conclusions one is looking for simply due to lack of resolution. From far away enough you can come up with the details yourself...