Sweden has one of the highest death rates in the world and they have paid a price.
This isn't a one size fits all scenario.
Every country has a different social, economic and healthcare demographic.
Sweden has 10M people, the city of London alone has almost that many. 1/33 of the US population.
They have a great public healthcare system that looks after everyone, not just wealthy, fat, golfers with bad combovers.
It is easy to take a test-centric approach there.
They also didn't do "nothing", they just did a lot less and let the people be sensible, they could afford to do so.
For this they paid a heavy price, something those affected by don't celebrate quite as much as those who want to use them as an example of how to do it.
It is a foreign concept, but beyond city, county and state lines is the rest of the world. Everyone has suffered and have had worse measures than the US.
A nation that is used to seeing trouble happening elsewhere in sanitised minute-long "news" segments is now coming apart at the seams because it is very real.
Because you don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't real.
Go speak to healthcare workers. People who have lost loved ones.
No one suggests that economic loss isn't severe and that this shouldn't be minimised. It is an impossible balancing act and, yet again, hindsight will be a perfect science.
In civilised cultures, life has a value. Business does not always come first.
Without healthy people, there is no business and vice versa.
It is not an either/or situation.
The US has always been insular, but perhaps spend a little less time watching local news and reading the internet, it provides a very narrow and distorted view of the world.
It is unfortunate that the only real export from the US these days is cancerous division and misinformation.