You keep say they but can’t explain why they have flattened the curve
Unlike its neighboring countries, Sweden flattened the curve by letting 5,000 people die and by letting the vulnerable hide in their homes to avoid the virus because Sweden, led by Anders Tegnell and Johan Gisecke, left it to old people to find their own solutions to dealing with the pandemic. And the vulnerable are going to have to do a lot more hiding until the vaccines are there.
Your flattening-the-curve fetichism makes you unable to understand what was supposed to be
the point of flattening the curve. It wasn't to prevent people from getting infected (and a lot of those people from dying). The flattening-the-curve strategy expected
everybody to get the infection sooner or later and merely intended to
slow down the transmission, so the health-care system wouldn't get overwhelmed:
Like this (Wikipedia).
It's the reason why Anders Tegnell and Johan Giesecke are still hoping that the virus will run wild all over the rest of the world, so their predictions can come true:
Winter is coming!
And it's the reason why Anders Tegnell declared that what New Zealand managed to do was
"impossible!" (4 deaths per million, but they are still 'dancing'.)
But that is not what happened in Sweden: Sweden's health-care system
was overwhelmed to the extent where they even stopped hospitalizing old people (and some not so old), they stopped examining old people, they practiced long-distance triage and prescribed palliative care, i.e. letting people die on opiates instead of trying to help them survive the disease. The other half of the strategy's (alleged) intention was to protect old people from getting infected while everybody else got Covid-19, most of whom would survive. And we all know how that went: Old people weren't protected and so many of them died that the excess mortality is very obvious in the Swedish statistics for a couple of months.
So Sweden's flattening-the-curve strategy
failed miserably - even on its own terms - and obviously much worse than the other Nordic countries because Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland and Norway soon abandoned that strategy for
the Hammer & the Dance (Medium, March 19, 2020).
Cumulative number of coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the Nordic countries (Statista.com, Aug. 13, 2020)
Actually, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland never bought into the idiotic flattening-the-curve strategy and started hammering immediately.
The curve of
any disease will eventually flatten - sometimes by having millions die. Fortunately, the Covid-19's rate of fatality doesn't come anywhere near the worst killers.
ETA: Those of Sweden's researchers who are subservient to Tegnell and Giesecke have a brilliant way of defending the Swedish strategy:
The strategy was to flatten the curve, not overwhelm health care capacity. That seems to have worked.
If you take care homes out of the equation, things actually look much brighterHelena Nordenstedt
Clinical epidemiologist and researcher in global health
Did Sweden's coronavirus strategy succeed or fail? (BBC, July 24, 2020)
Yes, if you don't look at all the dead people in Swedish nursing homes, things do indeed look brighter! Considering that we are talking about a strategy that mainly kills the elderly, this is an approach that can be used everywhere. For instance, if you don't consider all the dead people, WW2 wasn't as bad as it is usually made out to be. A lot of young people got to see other parts of the world, all expenses paid by their governments. What's not to like about young people getting to know other places and nationalities?
