They needed a control group, and the control group has to be average and similar to most of the west which seems to be the main area they want to depopulate.

They would need tracking of every citizen, which once again makes Sweden a good choice as such infrastructure already exist. All it takes is to combine the logs from all private companies. Lot's of people use google maps for navigation with gps, every store chain has a membership program with discounts (and tracking), most interactions with the government is done digitally using a digital id that tracks your location. Internet connectivity almost everywhere. And the country is almost cashless.

As for the narrative, 100% of MSM is state funded and state approved. This is ironically why Sweden always rank high in "freedom of press", while in reality, any journalist who actually do journalism and investigate the government corruption does not get any money from the government obviously, and does not get the same legal protection as government approved journalists. So it's not uncommon for actual journalists to get censored from the internet and publishing companies, some even goes to prison.

And as you know, most libtards and lefties allover the world trust fake news media, who obviously get their information from fake news state controlled media in Sweden. State television (fake public service) has for months been fearmongering, crying about new cases, worse than ever REEEE, even tho stats says no new deaths for like a month. Sweden really has the the most fake, fake news media.