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They're more and more common now (I live in Stockholm).
by gerikson 6y ago
They're more and more common now (I live in Stockholm).
- Kiro 6y agoStill, saying mask compliance is better in Sweden is just so far off. We're not remotely close to countries with mask mandates.
- imartin2k 6y ago100 %. I’m in Berlin right now. Compliance with mandatory mask rules here is now basically 99 % on public transport and in public indoor spaces. I would have never thought this could happen in such an otherwise rebelliously spirited city. But most people seem to understand that mask use is about protecting others as much or more than about protecting oneself. In Sweden on the other hand, mask use is neither mandatory, nor has the messaging been about that mask use is about protecting others primarily, nor seem Swedes to care a lot about protecting others. This whole mask issue has revealed a rather ugly, selfish side of Swedish mentality to me. In addition to the stubbornness and widely internalized national exceptionalism.