NYT Has Trouble Talking Seriously About the Swedish Approach

Opinion columns are always given more leeway than news articles, but it would be reasonable to expect that an opinion column in a major newspaper have some connection to reality. That does not appear to be the case with this one that tells us I live in Sweden. Im not panicking.

The piece is a defense of Swedens decision to not have a shutdown period in which most businesses are closed and people are restricted from traveling for non-essential purposes. This has resulted in far higher...