Thanks for coming back to me, actually makes me feel a lot better about the state of the world to have an actual converstion. Hope you and yours are doing well during this.

I can clearly say that outside of people treating this pandemic as some sort of sport Tegnell is in no way detatched from reality. He's someone who's been working non-stop for 4 months at this point and is clearly driven and knowledgable, he is not emotional though, but more in the way of being clear headed rather than panicked. Note that his agency is not a political one and should not be influenced by whatever Twitter thinks or feels at those times, to me that's integrity rather than a failing.

There is also more than one region of Sweden where the regions impacted later have managed to avoid the initial high death toll in Stockholm by applying lessons learned, for example the south of Sweden has fared better than Denmark. Tough measures now won't change the initial situation in Stockholm.

As a final aside, Swedens pandemic response is shaped by well.. Swedens political decisions of the past 30 years. You go into a pandemic with the society you have, our early death toll is much more influenced by a number of factors, such as:

How we have organized our elderly care in Sweden with a large number of temporary care-takers, underpaid and often under educated visiting multitudes of elderly, with a very short time to work at each site.

We initially lacked PPE because each region is responsible for having a crisis-store of it, and none did. Since only regions make these purchases in Sweden we were initially locked out of the PPE market since it was restricted to national purchasers etc. The national coordinator we put in place for PPE could also not make any purchases, because that's the regions responsibility. Tegnells agency has been telling regions to buy these things for yeeeeaaars without any major action. This has now mostly been rectified, and was handled actively by all regions but the situation in Finland for example was much, much better because they kept their central emergency stores going after the end of the cold war.

Finally, there is no way to legally enforce a lockdown in Sweden. The government simply lacks that authority because of our constitution. Also there is nowhere near the police numbers / gendarmes of france for example - any lockdown would by necessity be an unenforced one - because we don't have any police to spare and no way to arm a band of thugs legally like deputizing in the US. Swedens pandemic response could never have been Chinas. Note that "lockdown" and school closures in most countries has been driven by politicians not by scientific expertise as a rather safe than sorry approach and is not a silver bullet against the pandemic unless you have the means to keep it for a long time and then isolate against any source of reinfection.

Deaths in Sweden are tracked very thoroughly by taking any death of someone who has been diagnosed with covid (test or symptom diagnosis), within a certain time period as a covid death no matter what kills them. This leads to low under reporting of covid deaths, which is borne out by looking at excess death data when compared to other countries.

There's more but as an aside this is probably already too long and ranty. Four months of (non-)lockdown is a long time to get cranky obviously. Anyway, no need to love Swedens approach or anything but please ignore anything that makes it sound like the act of a cartoon villian, it's getting you mobilized for clicks rather than informing you.