It’s really irrelevant if R is 0.99999 or 1. Restrictions ease, more human contact, R increases in the absence of steps to mitigate.
Who knows maybe the virus doesn’t like the cold? It turns out it wasn’t that bothered by the heat so let’s wager on that. My magic 8 ball (ask8ball.net) says it’s “most likely” we will defeat coronavirus so some other acts of chance must go in our favour in the absence of an coherent public health position.
Some “insights” into the Swedish Socrates of herd immunity and his lack of expertise have been revealed in some emails.
https://www.thelocal.se/20200812/why...egnells-emails
“Over in one or two months“. Old Boy may yet have a career in epidemiology
if he has the right to live and work in the European Union. I’m confident Sweden will be recruiting soon.