I tend to agree that we could talk about Sweden more but most likely for a very different reason: they managed to turn the corner despite the lax rules and not because of them. The outcome, I think, can be attributed to the fact that Sweden is a developed country with a strong health and well-fare system and economic ability (and socially pre-existing tendency!) for distancing without going bankrupt in the process (think: remote work instead of work that requires physical presence in e.g. a workshop - I doubt that such an outcome would have been possible in a country with widespread day-labour and people living hand-to-mouth). People were eventually able to react correctly all by themselves but it took a while and that costed a lot of lives. That does not mean that they could not have saved a lot of people with a different approach, like Norway or Finland managed to. Those did not really fare much worse economically in the process and that without incurring the huge cost of lives like Sweden did in the beginning. If you translate the swedish snippet at the top of the post, you might be able to guess who I blame for that.