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Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m... by Lewton on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:35AM (#23401303)
> The fact that Denmark closes down tourist areas, and the border, but allow their citizens to cross the bridge to Sweden and enjoy all the tourist areas there, and then come back to Denmark, that's just silly.

This is politically impossible to stop. Sweden has not closed its borders, so there's no one to stop danes from entering. And Denmark can't close it's borders to danish nationals, so they can't be stopped from returning home.

The Danish Government has made clear statements saying that they strongly urge people to not go to Sweden

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Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m... by mytherin on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:31AM (#23403120)
They can't close their border to Danish nationals, but they can quarantine people for 14 days upon return. If they were completely serious about stopping this they would have done that. Nobody is going to go on a short tourism trip knowing they will be quarantined upon return home.
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Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m... by Lewton on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:29AM (#23403686)
I don’t find it particularly odd or hypocritical that the danish government would prefer to avoid a situation where they have to forcefully quarantine people
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Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m... by panpanna on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:08AM (#23402907)
Denmark is the king of this kind of stupidity. People call it symbolic-politics.

Remember, this is the same country that during the Syria crisis stripped incoming refugee of their belonging then dropped them off by the Swedish border.

Edit: since people are downvoting this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/26/danish-parliam...

https://www.thelocal.se/20150910/danish-police-allow-refugee...

https://www.rt.com/news/445552-denmark-refugees-island-unwan...

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