People keep pointing to Swedish death numbers as a sign that “the approach are not working”. But lockdown measures in so many countries are not designed to avoi

People keep pointing to Swedish death numbers as a sign that “the approach are not working”. But lockdown measures in so many countries are not designed to avoid every single fatality as much as to keep the health system from being overwhelmed. If Sweden has had a fairly sizable amount of deaths – of mainly elderly people, as we see – but its health system has not been overwhelmed for the bulk of the population and the economy has not greatly suffered, then things are arguably working out better than in countries which have minimized fatalities but are dealing with greater economic (and psychological) fallout.