Sweden’s chief epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell: “Lockdowns, closing of border … Nothing has a historical scientific basis, in my view. We have looked at a number of EU countries to see whether they published any analysis of the effects of these measures before they started, and we saw almost none.”

That statement is revealing. How can there be no analysis done on the likely repercussions of a strategy that is going to have massive repercussions?

No doubt later we will hear, "Oh, we didn't know! We just tried to do our best in difficult circumstances." Which will be kinda true, except the reason nobody knew is because no one wanted to know.