Commentary “We’re in a desperate situation, and when you see the modelling, you’ll fall off your chair,” an agitated Ontario Premier Doug Ford told a press on Jan. 8. “There will be further measures, because this is getting out of control. … This is so, so serious. This is the most serious situation we’ve ever been in ever, ever, since the start of this pandemic.” Ford’s panic is understandable. He admits to having no answer for Ontario’s soaring COVID cases, hospital admissions, and deaths. All government attempts to date to outmanoeuvre the virus have proved futile. In desperation, Ford is now talking of tightening the lockdowns and says “everything is on the table.” But one option surely isn’t on the table—the one option that would likely have made the virus a largely spent force by now. Ford isn’t considering the Swedish option, which to date has employed few government-imposed restrictions: no …