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Keep in mind our way of life is quite different from many other countries. In the bigger cities people share spaces a lot, but the bulk of swedes live in the country side where we have pretty limited contact with others. No restaurant culture to talk about, no pubs, not many concerts to see, etc etc.
I think we're pretty isolated to start off with. Normally it sucks, but pretty handy during a pandemic
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Pretty clear to me Sweden is having a crack at the herd immunity approach. Should be an interesting experiment, shame me and the fam will be the guinea pigs. I’ve seen the chart for number of ICU beds per capita in Sweden and it’s pretty scary not knowing how sick you might get.
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Swedes go to shops, cafes, bars, cinemas events like everyone else, no? And the government really hasn't limited these. I've seen pics from friends in Gothenburg showing they are out and about at galleries, sitting on packed cafe terraces etc...
Seems to me that if one person in Korea can spread it to 1000 people in a church, one person in Sweden is capable of doing the same.
I genuinely hope to be proved wrong but Sweden has large urban centers like everywhere else and without restriction of movement the virus will have been spreading throughout them and I don't see that Swedish sociability or lack thereof is a natural defence when public transport etc is involved.
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we're pretty isolated to start off with
The same applies to the Nordic region as a whole. There´s just so few people out and about and people chatting away (if they´re one of the weirdo extroverts) two metres apart looking at a shared imaginary focal point on the ground 5 metres away is the norm. Unless they´re drunk of course. Also, "bigger cities" needs to be taken with a grain of salt anywhere in the region. To sum it all up, it´s just boring up there.
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Petteri
definitely the Swedish mentality of being seen to be doing the right thing more right than everyone else as far as I remember it... I fear that they may have misjudged in this instance unless they genuinely do know something everyone else in the world doesn't.