I'm a swede. From what I understand, they didn't want to have a general rule but local ones instead (which are now in place in certain locations instead). Basic

I'm a swede. From what I understand, they didn't want to have a general rule but local ones instead (which are now in place in certain locations instead). Basically, they thought that they had to loosen it up (and could do so without significant issues - they probably decided right before it went up again) since so many people hadn't been able to see their dearest in so long (a lot of these people are also in the very end of life, so time is even more valuable). I honestly doubt it has anything to do with what's happening right now. I honestly think this is more a consequence of it going bad in Europe again (many other EU countries started to see a big increase before Sweden this time around). Some of the reasoning seems to go "if there's enough viruses going around at large in society it will enter our nursing homes anyway", so maybe it actually doesn't really matter that much? I guess nobody really knows. Lots of guessing going around these days...