Sweden seems to have become a Dem/Rep arguing point in the USA and unfortunately that means you can't discuss it anywhere online without loads of hot takes. But I think there is stuff worth looking at in Sweden's approach. It certainly can't be dismissed as trivially as you are trying to dismiss it.

Here's a Guardian article from a few days ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/sweden-records...

And here's a blog post giving some pro-swedish-approach arguments

https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-thing-a...

However, here's a good twitter thread about how you can't really translate Swedens approach to the USA

https://twitter.com/ChrChristensen/status/130966885138733466...

[Sweden’s COVID] policy can only be understood as inseparable from Sweden’s developed welfare state, social system: universal healthcare, paid sick leave, paid leave to care for sick kids, subsidized daycare & pre/after-school care.