Herd Immunity Is the Only Realistic Option—the Question Is How to Get There Safely.
Rather than declare a lockdown or a state of emergency, Sweden asked its citizens to practice social distancing on a mostly voluntary basis. As the pain of national lockdowns grows intolerable and countries realize that managing—rather than defeating—the pandemic is the only realistic option, more and more of them will begin to open up.
Whatever marks Sweden deserves for managing the pandemic, other nations are beginning to see that it is ahead of the curve.