We did it to avoid overwhelming our healthcare system because the estimates were saying as many as 2 million will die.
Nobody disputes that shutting down the economy by isolating everyone will flatten the curve (spread out the exposures over a longer period of time to avoid a giant swell of cases up front).
Sweden decided not to “flatten their curve”. They decided to take their cases up front whereas other countries that chose isolation will have them trickle in more slowly over time.
In the end everyone in all countries will be exposed.
You are not impugning Sweden’s decision as you are being told by your radical left wing sites that you are with this silly comparison to nearby countries who chose differently (I won’t even get into the difference in testing capabilities). You are reporting the inevitable consequence of up front cases that Sweden understood from the start that they would incur.
The real question is: “Was the Swedish healthcare system overwhelmed by its volume of cases such that there were unnecessary deaths from lack of ventilators, etc.
The answer to that question thus far is, “No.”
In the meantime, Sweden did not turn off their economy and put everyone out of work.