Sweden’s strategy of relying on people’s sense of responsibility instead of introducing new laws has not stopped the coronavirus from coming to the country:
Nothing has stopped the coronavirus from entering a country. The question is does Sweden’s strategy work better for controlling the impact of the virus once it has entered?
The important question is which countries lose the most freedom to fearmongering.
Compare Sweden to Denmark. Denmark implemented strict rules, Sweden didn’t.
Denmark has 5 million people and 247 deaths from coronavirus.
Sweden has 10 million and 900 deaths from coronavirus
They have kept their economy largely afloat and have a slightly higher death rate than we do at this point.
If they don’t start showing a massive spike pretty soon, I would say their strategy has been more successful than ours.