Let's compare Sweden to Norway, and throw Denmark in for good measure. If the other Scandinavian countries can be said to have "saved lives" by abandoning civil liberties, all that means is that they postponed their death spikes by 2 years. Data from https://t.co/NTOnqf0IgP
Given the prevalence of the belief that statements like this are authored by some government unit, I think any journalists that end up interviewing the families of victims need to start asking them if they were approached. Put this thing to bed one way or another