> Their economy suffered despite not locking down last year A forecast, but with data up to November 2020, which means it's probably not gonna change substanti

> Their economy suffered despite not locking down last year A forecast, but with data up to November 2020, which means it's probably not gonna change substantially when we have the full year data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102546/coronavirus-european-gdp-growth/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1102546/coronavirus-euro... So, Sweden is third least affected country in that list. It's missing Norway and Finland, though, but a quick google shows Norway at -3.5% and Finland at -4.0%, both worse than Sweden. At the same time, the covid-19 deaths in Sweden is pretty close to the EU average, now, after the winter surge: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=earliest..latest&country=SWE~EuropeanUnion&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=total&hideControls=true&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... The obvious conclusion of that data is that lockdowns destroy your economy, but don't actually save lives.