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In the Gompertz-Model (that worked perfectly for China) Sweden is converging to R~0,8 - with a total death-count <6000. Germany is going to R~0,7 / <9000.

Given the explosive dynamics of COVID-19 that soon converges to R<1 going for herd immunity was most likely a bad choice.

For Germany cutting the flu in half worked - while the bad math of the epidemiologists-community seems to last forever...

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> going for herd immunity was most likely a bad choice.

I think this has been repeated a lot. No one is "going for herd immunity". Every country including sweden has two goals: having as few as possible infected and preventing healthcare from being overwhelmed. If partial or full immunity makes the virus go away that's a fortunate side effect of slow burn, not the "goal".

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