Letter From Sweden: ‘I Can’t Remember When I Last Hugged Anyone’

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Sweden has forged its own path when it comes to responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Is it working? Ika Johannesson, the anchor for culture news on Swedish television SVT (Swedish Public Television) fills us in.

with a first-person account of life in Stockholm at the moment is Ika Johannesson, the anchor for culture news on Swedish television SVT . With Vejde Gustafsson, she cofounded and edited the indie culture magazinewith Jon Jefferson Klingberg.

No one I know wears a mask. I don’t wear a mask because the message we’re given from the authorities here is that it isn’t very effective . But what they mean is that having a mask on your face makes you touch your face more and therefore can bring virus particles near your mouth, eyes, and nose. That’s the one part of it. The other is that it can give you a sense of false security and make you lax with other safety measures. This is a controversial thing.

We’re such a small country, and I think the government strategy has made us come together. There’s been both good and bad press about us. Some people think that, yeah, it does seem like a good strategy, and then some people think that we’re just crazy or that we’re gambling with really high stakes. I think it’s resulted in some sort of patriotism.

I’ve been very happy that the schools haven’t shut down. I have two kids—one 11-year-old, one 12-and-a-half-year-old—who are addicted to screens in a way that makes me...I don’t even have a strong enough word to describe how much I hate the screens and what they do to the kids. If they had been home this entire time, they would have been glued to them. They have been going to school, to karate, to Scouts.

 

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It's not working. They are the 8th country with the highest deaths per capita in the world.

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