Sweden’s approach is an optimization of how to respond to the epidemic and how to respond to the general life disruption.
The optimal response to the epidemic is everyone stays in their house for 1 month with no human contact. In that scenario, the virus is stopped and everyone dies because no one works the food chain, etc.
The world’s current response is heavily weighed towards optimizing the response toward the epidemic, but the potentially fatal assumption to this approach is that a vaccine will soon be developed. If a vaccine is not soon developed, the same amount of people will still get sick, people will still die, but additional people will die due to life disruption.
The optimal response to the epidemic is everyone stays in their house for 1 month with no human contact. In that scenario, the virus is stopped and everyone dies because no one works the food chain, etc.
The world’s current response is heavily weighed towards optimizing the response toward the epidemic, but the potentially fatal assumption to this approach is that a vaccine will soon be developed. If a vaccine is not soon developed, the same amount of people will still get sick, people will still die, but additional people will die due to life disruption.