[Systemic33]

In Denmark, which took a different strategy similar to most countries, we never quite had a full lock-down as seen in many other countries.

Majority of retail continued throughout the "lock-down", but with an abundance of care taken in terms of keeping a 2m distance, limited number of customers in a shop (queue stretching out of stores is a common sight), and alcohol sanitizers everywhere.

The majority of businesses and institutions have reopened (schools and kindergardens being the first ones), and restaurants, café and cinemas have just recently opened (with appropriate restrictions).

What is interesting is that Sweden has seen the roughly the same level of economic contraction as Denmark, despite the vastly different policies.

[username90]

Closing schools is an over reaction though. Denmark has significantly lower life expectancy than Sweden and will have it this year as well. Why? Largely alcohol and tobacco. Sure, Denmark having less alcohol and tobacco measures than Sweden is great for your economy, but limiting them like Sweden does would save way more lives and have way smaller effects on peoples lives than your current Corona measures.

All of these articles pointing at Sweden as if it was a failure really has didn't consider how minor effect it had in Sweden, I'd say that the other Scandinavian countries over reacted instead. Maybe not Norway since they seem to value life higher, but both Finland and Denmark will still have lower life expectancy than Sweden and if they cared about life they would put resources on other measures than Corona.