"In two areas we can see where we have been most different from others. And that is that we have kept our schools open up to the ninth grade, up to 16 years of age, and we have not had a lockdown, meaning that people have to stay at home," she said.
Nonetheless, the figures paint a sober picture of Sweden's experience of the pandemic, compared to its neighbors. Sweden has recorded 52,323 cases of the coronavirus and 4,939 deaths while Finland, Norway and Denmark have seen far fewer cases and deaths. Denmark, for example, has reported 12,450 cases and 598 deaths and the other two neighbors even fewer cases and fatalities.
"The week the virus broke out was Spring Break in Sweden and we had so many more international travelers, more than a million, coming to Stockholm from all over the world. We only detected, at that time, Italian and Austrian travelers and we followed them up by testing them. But now, later on when we know more about the virus, we could see that it was the virus coming from the United States, U.K., Belgium and other countries where we did not do this testing and tracing," she said.
Linde said she regularly speaks to her counterparts in Denmark, Norway and Finland on a regular basis and that she hoped restrictions would soon be lifted, particularly after the EU had already recommended that member states lift all internal travel restrictions from June 15, and allow non-essential travel into the EU starting from July 1.
talked to my swedish friends, they just shrugged it off
Oh please. You make a choice you deal with the consequences.
Sweden decided to go it alone. Why is the minister complaining about 'wounds' from being shunned? What about the 'wounds' they'd inflict on their neighbors by letting Swedes, who have become infected at a higher rate, cross the border? I really don't get their arrogance.
Well, on the + side, we know what happens if you do nothing and hope for the best. The US did less than nothing and made another good example of what not to do. Now its just the consequences of those choices, and they won't be good for those who did nothing. Or less.
gtconway3d Unfortunately for many Swedes there are also family members and loved ones who died due to poor policy, and time won’t bring them back. When any society treats any group of its people as expendable they deserve to be shunned. ‘Herd immunity’ is for cattle, not people.
gtconway3d You should stay home until you have the infection under control. Get it? Swedes don't need to worry about traveling to Norway until they do what the Norwegians did at the beginning of the pandemic. Stay home!
gtconway3d Awww they dont want your sickness which kills....you will get over it
Real journalism is dead
gtconway3d Well, när du spelar med eld blir du bränd! Sverige
Ther is no way to stop the spread of COVID, only to slow it down. Sweden made the right decision. The worst is over for them.
gtconway3d And I have a feeling that even though other countries might want US tourism dollars, they may ban us from their countries because we do not have this thing under control in the US. If they fought hard to stop the virus, they won’t want us spreading it again.
gtconway3d Sweden was neutral during WWII, too.
Yeah what ever. They were right. The world was not.
wonder what it means for Nobel ceremonies... those are big pagentry-style events...
gtconway3d Swedes were all too ready to ridicule the rest of the world about Covid. If we'd all done what Sweden did, total deaths worldwide would be approaching 4 million. No other way to see it, Sweden's response has been an unmitigated disaster
gtconway3d Sweden understands why, the mumbers speak for themselves. Sweden took a different approach with Herd immunity that didn’t play out so well, until they can manage the numbers they will be on the bench.
gtconway3d Is this why people play chess?
gtconway3d Dead pr day in Denmark, Sweden and Norway:
gtconway3d *cough*cough* Gustavus Adolphus Would have Invaded by Now *cough*cough*
gtconway3d Sweden's COVID death rate is 10 times that of Norway or Finland. The 'herd immunity' experiment was a failure that cost many Swedish lives.
gtconway3d Sweden is a notable disaster among its neighbors
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Sweden... is alive!?