What I don& #39;t totally understand about Sweden is whether this is the outcome they were expecting or not. If you do deliberately half-assed social distancing (not trying to get R < 1) then inevitably a lot of people are going to get infected and die. https://time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/">https://time.com/5817412/s...

So why the hell would you do that? Well, if you think it& #39;s inevitable that a large fraction of the population is *eventually* going to get infected sooner or later, you might want to "get it over with". I think that& #39;s a big mistake, but that& #39;s basically what Sweden is doing.