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I don't have the numbers in front of me, but the economist suggested that Sweden's economy took about the same dive as counties that officially locked down. Their death count per capita is significantly higher than ours, but still nowhere near enough for heard immunity making a second wave similarly likely. We'll see though. I really do think it's too early to tell what we should have done all along. Are non medical masks really effective? If they are why the fuck didn't we do it before? If they're not why has it become so political? We're far from any right answers and making it political as you said is the wrong way to go about it. Let's stick to science and facts.
Sweden's case and death curve got crushed even though they never had a real lockdown. At most they banned public gatherings above 50 (so no concerts, no attendance in sporting events) and cancelled in-class instruction for students 16+. I've heard the reports that Sweden didn't actually achieve herd immunity (60+%). It was more like 13-14% immunity according to sero studies. But for some reason their cases and deaths dropped like a rock anyways. I don't think it's the summer because Brazil and India are getting ravaged by the virus. The Southern USA had lots of COVID in this heat.
No, Sweden's economy didn't take as much as a dive as other countries.