[pjc50]

> live audience

Exactly. Last year I watched (over the internet) Sanna Nielsen sing Stockholm in my heart to an empty field where there should have been an audience of thousands. Useful to have a bit of an awareness of foreign media to see what's actually happening, not what's reported by delusionists on the internet.

It was never true that there were no restrictions in Sweden, just less restrictions.

[ashtonkem]

That’s the utility of high social trust; rules can be self enforced by suggestion, rather than by force.