[throwaway202020]

What about the photos of people happily seating in groups in restaurants and even attending sports events? I never seen anyone in those photos with masks. Also, I believe schools were kept open at least before summer vacations? I am not living there but very curious about how the life was during COVID period there.

[rightbyte]

It is some cherry picking of photos. Public space activity did drop alot in Mars due to people not following recommendations (not a typo). There still was normal eg. restaurant activity just with fewer guests.

The main problem was that the authority leaders don't believe in wide testing, PPE for nursing home workers or asymptomatic transmission, I guess.

[ghaff]

In general, any photo you see anywhere is going to be cherry-picked. Of course, that only goes so far. If you have a crowded school corridor with almost no one wearing masks, well--that happened. But it's hard to draw broad conclusions generally because of what seems like a somewhat crowded restaurant or an empty street.

A lot of people also bring their own beliefs about what is appropriate to the interpretation and discussion.

[rightbyte]

Ye, I agree. As a note, schools up to 15 y.o:s were open so photos of those should show a lot of pupils.

[ghaff]

Although lots of promises in many places about distancing and masks and so forth that no one who has ever been or ever been around anyone from Kindergarten kids to college students actually really believed.

[Barrin92]

>What about the photos of people happily seating in groups in restaurants and even attending sports events?

they obviously don't distance (by definition), but economic indicators suggest that Swede's do behave similar to countries that went into formal lockdowns. GDP in the second quarter was down 8.5%, which is not far off from the 10% in Germany or the US.