No-lockdown Sweden is an awkward counter-factual to locked-down UK. The country followed existing pandemic protocol and didn’t try the brand new lockdown experiment. The Swedes have largely been entrusted with government guidance rather than law and, as a result, life has carried on more normally and the economy saw a much milder downturn than the UK, with a 2.9% contraction in GDP,8 rather than the UK’s 11.3%.9 Lockdown fanatics think Sweden pursued a
