Just because there were no government mandated lockdown doesn't mean that everyone was living as usual. There are plenty of people that are still working from h

Just because there were no government mandated lockdown doesn't mean that everyone was living as usual. There are plenty of people that are still working from home today, and have been since spring 2020. I don't have any numbers, but my impression was that pretty much everyone that could worked from home most of 2020 and the first half of 2021. There were (and still are to a certain extent) heavy regulation on restaurants. Cell phone network data showed a marked difference in people's mobility [0]. Grocery stores ask people to shop alone and have separated entry and exits. Universities and highschools have had distance learning for months at a time. Etc. Swedes were not unaffected by the pandemic, but they weren't fined by police if they left their home more than once per day, or other ridiculous rules that way too many seems to be ok with. One thing to note in the near time is how the infection rate is low at the moment [1] (the data for spring 2020 is inaccurate due to lack of testing). This is not because of some government initiative or similar, in fact it was very low last summer as well before it got really high during winter. This shows the enormous difference it makes when people are spending less time indoor, and pretty much everyone has a month off work. The infection rate is currently rising, mainly among young people that has chose not to get vaccinated. My attitude about it is that in about a months time everyone will have had the chance to have had two vaccine shots, so if people want to put themselves at risk we should let them, and not force the rest of us to protect them by limiting ourselves. At least as long as the hospitals can manage. [0] https://www.telia.se/privat/aktuellt/hemma-i-folknatet/covid-19-mobilitetsanalys https://www.telia.se/privat/aktuellt/hemma-i-folknatet/covid... [1] https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6...