(1) Sweden’s Sonderweg (“special road”, idiomatically, “going its own way”) is the subject of heated debate pro and con.
At first sight, per capita mortality is an order of magnitude higher than in adjacent countries with similar ethnic profile, climate, and sociology. (Sweden does, however, have a higher percentage of 1st-generation immigrants than Norway, Denmark, and Finland — see below.)
At second sight, however, it turned out that Swedish morbidity and especially mortality is disproportionately concentrated in two populations: elderly in care homes (over 70%) and 1st-generation immigrants. Mortality among native Swedes from young to independent elderly, is actually not that elevated compared to the neighbors.
On the gripping hand, while the Swedes may have avoided the economic ruination of a full lockdown and may be closer to herd immunity now should a second wave arrive, there are costs to this epidemic for everyone (the travel…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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