although I refuse to believe it was based on science.

Anders Tegnell may be an idiot, but at least he understands scientific method. He once proposed to put Statin in the drinking water to lower peoples cholesterol, only problem is, that would have increased the risk of dementia and alzheimer. Luckily that faced too much resistance from the public so it was cancelled.

He also made the "plate model", which is a government designed chart over how to eat healthy, it goes something like 30% meat, 30% veggies and 40% bread, rice, sawdust... shit without nay sort of nutritious. People who obey it looks like North Korean factory workers.

I think the feminist government just didn't know what else to do and said fuck it we'll ignore it and see what happens.

Yep, this was also part of it. They did take advice from Anders Tegnell (Sweden's version of Fauci), but neither him or the government really had any clue on what to do. They also managed to burn every respirator and mask in the country just weeks before the plandemic broke out because they ran out of garbage at the heating plants, and had to throw in anything they could find into the boilers.