Most US states did not even follow the lock down policies anyways and snubbed vaccinations.<br>None of the World's 195 countries were able to control or mitigate the affects of Covid without some sort of lock downs and crowd controls. Sweden did exactly what Jay calls "focused protection" which did not work out too well for them.,(reply>), Yes, Sweden could have done it better (and Dr Tegnel admitted that) but , in terms of deaths per capita, they're still doing better than 19 other European countries.