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Default Sweden resisted a lockdown, and its capital Stockholm expected to reach herd immunty

No lockdown in Sweden but Stockholm could see '''herd immunity''' in weeks

From another article:

Protecting a population from becoming infected with aggressive containment is like protecting a forest in the path of wildfire – unless continuous fire fighting efforts are made, the forest will eventually burn. Aggressive contact tracing, testing, quarantine and lockdowns minimise contagion and have substantially reduced early fatalities from COVID-19.

But unless those who remain uninfected are protected until effective pharmacological interventions (vaccines, prophylactics and therapeutics) come online, the ultimate burden of deaths may be the same in countries who opt for lockdown as in those who adopted more liberal containment strategies.

Coronavirus: are we underestimating how many people have had it? Sweden thinks so