At that point, they could end up in a situation where they experience the same deaths and have crippled their economy for months. Sweden would look very clever under such a scenario.
We will only know what strategies worked the best with benefit of hindsight.
For the vast majority of other countries delaying deaths will mean saving many lives, because of overwhelmed healthcare systems.
In the US, for example, healthcare systems are overloaded in places far from hotspots. If the lockdown had come a day or two later in places that are hotspots it would have been a catastrophe.
Everybody likes to play the numbers and curves games, but don't make it political by deliberately faking it. Like the NY Times or FT curves lately.
Even euromomo.eu changed its curves recently so they do lookh more dramatic. Not backed by the absolute numbers. They suddenly invented 32.000 unaccounted new deaths out of the magicians hat, not telling us were these new numbers came from. Some countries forbid pathologies on COVID-19 cases and forbid classification post-mortem. But this only applies to elderlies dying at home alone. But this would only apply to countries like the US with no healthcare system. Like the New Jersey case of 70 seniors. Everybody else goes to the hospitals.
Suggesting it is the equivalent of a "weak flu season" is an outright lie. And the bit about our immune system being able to fight it off well due to a similarity with the common cold is just something you made up, right?
Around 2k deaths is a common but serious flu, and corona has passed that, and we don't see a peak.
Also, probably the wrong country to praise a capital G God about, but that's just a cultural thing.
(yeah, everyone says it does since a week ago but data is reported late and it has been showing a downward trend the last few days for many weeks, it's not)