I live here and this is the first time I've heard of it framed in terms of liberty. When schools started closing across Europe, government officials started ta

I live here and this is the first time I've heard of it framed in terms of liberty. When schools started closing across Europe, government officials started talking keeping the schools open so health care workers wouldn't have to take off work to care for their kids. This was also the rationale mentioned when the chief epidemiologist, Anders Tagnell, was interviewed by the BBC the other day. Another point he made was about compliance: if you keep everything shut down and on lockdown for too long, people will eventually just not comply anymore, so you want to save it until it's necessary. As cool as it would be to believe that we're just not doing it for liberty, it's pretty clear we're not doing it for practical reasons, and that we're not doing it yet. As things escalate, it's pretty clear the same lockdown measures other countries have implemented will also come to Sweden.