Re:Vilified early over Covid-19 strategy, Sweden seems to ha...
by matwood on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:11PM
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> Because the outbreak slowed without any strong controls.
Maybe not mandatory, but Sweden had/has voluntary controls in place. People there seem to actually listen to their government and try to do the right thing. The US could be in a similar situation, but we all know how that has gone.
While it is sometimes implied that Sweden didn’t have a lockdown, it did. It was just largely voluntary, with only a few legal measures such as a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people.
“Voluntary restrictions work as well as legal ones,” says the architect of Sweden’s strategy, chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
This appears to be true, in Sweden at least. The measures did work nearly as well in getting people to change their behaviour. Adam Sheridan at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, for instance, has used data from a bank to compare spending patterns up to April in Sweden and Denmark. Denmark introduced a compulsory lockdown on 11 March, one of the first in Europe.
Maybe not mandatory, but Sweden had/has voluntary controls in place. People there seem to actually listen to their government and try to do the right thing. The US could be in a similar situation, but we all know how that has gone.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...
While it is sometimes implied that Sweden didn’t have a lockdown, it did. It was just largely voluntary, with only a few legal measures such as a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people.
“Voluntary restrictions work as well as legal ones,” says the architect of Sweden’s strategy, chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
This appears to be true, in Sweden at least. The measures did work nearly as well in getting people to change their behaviour. Adam Sheridan at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, for instance, has used data from a bank to compare spending patterns up to April in Sweden and Denmark. Denmark introduced a compulsory lockdown on 11 March, one of the first in Europe.