Via Euronews: Sweden's coronavirus strategy: has 'culture of conformity' saved the country from COVID fatigue?


www.euronews.com/2020/10/19/has-sweden-s...oid-pandemic-fatigue

I don't know Middlemas, what do you think?

What has helped Sweden's approach to Covid - and not often mentioned - is that their culture is less gregarious.

Socialising isn't as common as in other countries - just like physical touching is rare. And embracing/kissing.

Ways of living and working have also contributed. 50% of all Swedes live alone, and are content to live a solitary existence.

Before the pandemic, one third of all workers worked at home - daily or weekly.

With a much higher percentage in Stockholm; so it was easier to restricted movement by extending this work option.

"Culture of conformity" is a load of bollocks a misinterpretation.

It is not about conforming, it is about equality and working for the common good.

I would say that the "conforming" countries are the ones locking down like all the rest, even after they know it doesn't work as they hoped.

middlemas wrote:
What has helped Sweden's approach to Covid - and not often mentioned - is that their culture is less gregarious.

This sort of stuff sounds suspiciously vague to me.

People use it to try and snuffle out the huge problem of Sweden doing no worse than us, but without destroying the country and thousands of lives in the process.

It is also noticeable that this sort of completely unscientific "reasoning" is used by those first to quote "science" as the reason the UK is justified in engaging in collective suicide...

200 000 projected to die because of lockdown.

Less "Gregarious"/More "conforming".

Not. Bloody. Good. Enough.

I think it's worth looking at the current figures in Sweden; loads of people have this now accepted trivial virus.

middlemas wrote:
50% of all Swedes live alone, and are content to live a solitary existence.



I agree with most of your assumptions, it makes sense that if you have less close physical contact, then you are less likely to catch or spread a disease, but is it really 50% of people living alone. People from Scandinavia, really have won the lottery of life, they live in a liberal society with a high standard of living, low crime, they are good looking and live in low density towns and cities.

robbiex wrote:
middlemas wrote:
50% of all Swedes live alone, and are content to live a solitary existence.



I agree with most of your assumptions, it makes sense that if you have less close physical contact, then you are less likely to catch or spread a disease, but is it really 50% of people living alone. People from Scandinavia, really have won the lottery of life, they live in a liberal society with a high standard of living, low crime, they are good looking and live in low density towns and cities.

I don't think it is quite 50%, but it is mostly because it is usual for children to leave home at eighteen, and the elderly have support so they can stay at home and out of care homes.