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> Sweden did things. Not French style military police on the streets with fines though. Here's the mobility data. This point really needs to be hammered home.

• acqq 6y ago
  Even more fascinating, the way I understand it, the mobility data shows that Sweden was able (and also had to) to keep less mobility for months after the neighboring countries returned to their pre-epidemics levels. I believe Swedes were doing that right, as the neighboring countries for months had much, much less deaths per million. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=SWE~NOR~DNK~FIN~USA&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&pickerSort=desc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... I've also added the U.S. to compare. As it can be seen, until some point in Summer, Sweden was obviously worse than the U.S. But the U.S. persevered, and having much more people, it also shows how strong the spreading was there. And also to put everything in even broader perspective, measuring in daily deaths per million, there are much worse countries in Europe at this very moment, showing how bad it can be in densely populated regions: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&country=SWE~NOR~DNK~FIN~USA~BEL~CZE~FRA&region=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=smoothed&perCapita=true&smoothing=7&pickerMetric=new_cases_per_million&pickerSort=desc https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...