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by Spare_account 2037 days ago
What about other countries?
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Other coutries used lockdowns.
Sweden basically did a lockdown - it just wasn't state-mandated.

If you look at the mobility data [1], you'll see that Sweden followed a very similar trend to its neighbors, and actually maintained lower mobility after other state-mandated lockdowns let up.

[1] https://www.teliacompany.com/sv/om-foretaget/uppdatering/mob...

The arbitrary choice of the reference point makes that bad data.
Either way, using Stockholm as the geographical reference point the chosen point correlates against dark cold Januari/Februari with average temperatures of -1°C and 7-8 hours of twilight. Considering that keeping the relative number below at the height of summer is quite impressive.