Re:Man behind Sweden’s controversial virus strategy admits m...
by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:55PM
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> You're not necessarily sacrificing international business and leisure travel, because there isn't going to be any if you've got a raging epidemic in your country.
On some outdoors forums I participate in, people have expressed envy of those Swedish members who have been free to trek or cycle all these months. Now some of those foreigners are chomping at the bit to visit Sweden when borders reopen, because they want to experience that nature for themselves. There are enough younger people who are reasonably unconcerned with coronavirus to kickstart a tourism-based economy.
FWIW, I stayed at a hostel in a different city in my own country last weekend. It was already fully booked: as soon as the borders opened, young backpackers from the neighboring countries immediately started traveling again.
Whether an epidemic is considered "raging" or not comes down to media depictions. In countries where the media accurately portrays this illness as killing almost entirely people over the age of 70 with multiple comorbidities, younger travelers are going to move around.
On some outdoors forums I participate in, people have expressed envy of those Swedish members who have been free to trek or cycle all these months. Now some of those foreigners are chomping at the bit to visit Sweden when borders reopen, because they want to experience that nature for themselves. There are enough younger people who are reasonably unconcerned with coronavirus to kickstart a tourism-based economy.
FWIW, I stayed at a hostel in a different city in my own country last weekend. It was already fully booked: as soon as the borders opened, young backpackers from the neighboring countries immediately started traveling again.
Whether an epidemic is considered "raging" or not comes down to media depictions. In countries where the media accurately portrays this illness as killing almost entirely people over the age of 70 with multiple comorbidities, younger travelers are going to move around.