The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by wk_end on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:48PM (#28268877)

FWIW, the main Wikipedia page on Stockholm lists a “Density” of ~5200, an “Urban Density” of ~4200 and a “Metro Density” of ~400. I admittedly don’t know which is the most useful one here. Population density metrics are tricky.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm

And not to be too scold-y, but 400 people per sq km is the population density of small middle-American towns. I know Stockholm isn’t the biggest city by any means, but it’s still a national capital and a cosmopolitan old-world city; a moment of reflection tells you it’s gotta be denser than, like, Little Falls, Minnesota.

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Re:The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental hea... by alecst on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:32PM (#28270346)

Definitely a learning moment for me. Means that the question of Sweden may not be so simple.

That said, most of the population doesn’t live in Stockholm, so that probably was not the right idea to start to begin with.

As another commenter pointed out, Sweden did worse than its neighbors who have a similar population distribution, and I think that's the more interesting take.

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