Notwithstanding your point about the desirability/practicality of a China style response outside of china, this: " I think Sweden showed that it ..." has n

Notwithstanding your point about the desirability/practicality of a China style response outside of china, this: " I think Sweden showed that it ..." has not been established yet so remains only one of a number of (potentially) interesting noisy data sets. Of course the range of response is much broader than US style incoherence to China style authoritarian control. There are bound to be a variety of interesting learnings from this range if we can get past personal/regional/national blinders.