Sweden did an immense service to the entire world by not locking down.
It may work to their benefit, it may not, but other countries did not pursue this path and but for Sweden, the endless lockdowns and economy destruction would become a default reaction to any health crisis going forward. Every experiment needs a control group.
You do realise that Sweden went on virtual lockdown. People practice social distancing, stayed away from restaurants etc and work from home. Oh and 56% of all Swedish households are SINGKE PERSON households, compared to 2w% in the USA.
A lockdown isn't necessary if the population behaves as if there was, as the Swede's did.
People want to pretend they went on with life as normal but they didn't. They just didn't have the government make official what was already happening on the ground.
"As a whole, Swedes visited restaurants, retail shops and other recreation spots almost as little as residents of neighboring countries..."