I'd be really careful comparing the strategies of smaller and more isolated countries to anyone else. What works in one country doesn't work in every country.
Sweden is a sparsely populated country on a peninsula bordering other sparsely populated countries. Meaning they are playing on easy mode from the start. You can see the bad affects their policy is having in the more densely populated cities. Other than that their geography and demography is doing most of the heavy lifting for them.
Same goes for small islands with low populations. It's great that Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand are having such a great success, but they too were playing on easy mode from the beginning. Islands are easy to close and lower populations are easier to track and isolate.
You can see that same effect in the US. General consensus is that they're doing a terrible job at everything, yet their sparsely populated states in the midwest and their islands are barely affected.
What I'm saying is that Sweden shouldn't be a model for anyone. In general.
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