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This is really interesting. It could be that Swedes are following the norms established everywhere else, even if 'lockdown' orders are not that hard. In Quebe
by jariel 7y ago
This is really interesting.
It could be that Swedes are following the norms established everywhere else, even if 'lockdown' orders are not that hard.
In Quebec, restaurants started to empty out long before they were ordered closed.
I can absolutely see information workers working from home without the order.
So it may be the the 'de-facto' situation in Sweden is quite similar to that of other places on soft lock down.
- alkonaut 7y ago> It could be that Swedes are following the norms established everywhere else, even if 'lockdown' orders are not that hard. Well, it could be but it's not that there is any numbers to back up anything yet. I do think that the difference in reality is smaller than the percieved difference in policy. Some headlines would have you believe that we are ignoring the pandemic and everyone just goes to work normally.
- checkyoursudo 7y agoI live in northern Sweden. This is some of my anecdotal sense. My children's school is still, technically, open. However, according to my neighbor who is a teacher there, there are only a small handful of children actually present any given day. On Friday, I think she said there were 2 children present. Edit: This is not to say that I have any idea about elsewhere. And, again, just one fairly not useful data point. Just an observation.
- reaperducer 7y agoIt could be that Swedes are following the norms established everywhere else, even if 'lockdown' orders are not that hard. Or it could be, as the article noted, that more than 50% of households are just one person.
- alkonaut 7y agoAnd no households consist of elderly living with younger relatives. That at least helps isolate the old from the rest.