Governments may tend to overstate things in these situations, rather than understate them, potentially leading to far worse consequences should things turn out much worse than they modeled, such as widespread riots, looting, anarchy, etc.
Secondly, Sweden has left their economy open, but how's that working out for them:
Sweden's Relaxed Approach to the Coronavirus Could Already Be Backfiring
https://time.com/5817412/sweden-coronavirus/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=0wpkFZUougc&feature=emb_title
The Netherlands Is Letting People Get Sick to Beat Coronavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozmh40wwAGc
"The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE-cA4UK07c
"The contrast between Canada and Sweden's response to COVID-19 pandemic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6cdZbISRTM
People who have been ventilated have described the experience as awful beyond belief:
https://theprovince.com/news/differ...tors/wcm/c10257f4-54a9-4176-9f21-30c6acd241e3
Hopefully you won't have to experience that "awful beyond belief".
Wear a mask & stay safe. Good luck.