I never said Sweden was any better per se. Just that they werent really any worse off. Of course their economy will not be doing well. The global economy as a whole is kind of in the shitter now. And I'm sure people there aren't going out as much and still being cautious. The issue here is government mandates. If people want to stay inside and not go out, that's their choice to do so. The effectiveness of the government force is what I'm taking issue with here. Not sure how I'm being deceitful.

And you can find just as many studies that say they don't work. Here's a nice little collection of both sides of studies. It's a couple months old, but the point still stands.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/did-the-lockdowns-work/

I guess that's a bit of an issue with it being so politicized. Then there's the issue of how the deaths are recorded.

Countries with higher baseline infections and deaths (Spain, Germany, Italy, UK, and France-cluster 1) fared poorly compared to those who declared lockdown early on (Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, India, Hungary, Poland and Malaysia-cluster 2). Sweden and South Korea, countries without lock-down, fared as good as the countries in cluster 2.

Btw, from the study you linked. It says countries like Sweden and SK without lockdowns fared as good as the countries in cluster 2 that locked down early on.