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Comparing the US and Swedish economies is not really a viable comparison. Sweden's economy has been adversely impacted by a huge drop in tourism, a drop in the supply chain from foreign sources that would be needed in manufacturing, a drop in foreign customers for those manufactured goods, losses in the transport sector, and some losses in the service sector. 9000 companies in the tourism business are in danger of bankruptcy, with 80,000 jobs lost. My source for the above info is an email from my Swedish cousin, who happens to be president of the Swedish tourism bureau, and is a former minister in charge of business development and former deputy prime minister of Sweden. So I get some good info.

Most of these impacts are not directly related to what Sweden is doing within their own borders: it's more to do with what's going on internationally. Being such a small country with a less diverse economy than the USA , Sweden is more prone to the effects of a worldwide lock-down.