[jacobush]

Also Swede here. I have high hopes that the decision to not yet close elementary schools will have been the right choice, for now. Time will tell though and the whole thing is very unsettling.

But yes, Sweden handled this ineptly. People were coming home from hot spots in Italy - they were not tested, not told to self quarantine, anything. That's just plain stupid and slow, there's no excuse for that.

[mscasts]

Yes shutting down elementary schools for children that needs parental supervision is probably a bad idea since that leads to the need of a parent at home.

Parents who otherwise would be working at hospitals or other important features of a society. But there has been a lot of other options that just passed as you mention.