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🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | One of the things that I think is frustrating a lot of people is Sweden. |
0:06.0 | What is it with Sweden? Why is Sweden seem to have the same approximate death rate yet |
0:13.0 | they're not locked down? There are stories, right? Some people saying Sweden's |
0:17.0 | partying. They're in bars. It's outrageous. They're having a great time. This is just like a cold. |
0:22.0 | Others say, no, there's tons of people dying in Sweden. You're just not being told. |
0:27.0 | Well, we decided to send out a couple of people into the population to bring a van |
0:32.0 | in the camera and give us a sense of what's going on in Sweden. Take a look at this. |
0:43.0 | So here we are, starting garden. Yeah, probably the most notorious street of Stockholm. |
0:50.0 | There's very few face masks. This is where all the shops are. |
0:55.0 | Yeah. All the cafes are and it's usually so packed you have to kind of like leave your way through. |
1:01.0 | This is not normal, but this is also not, you know, quarantine either. This is no lockdown for sure. |
1:09.0 | I'm an American living here in Stockholm. I live outside the city. |
1:13.0 | Victor, you're on the other side of the city. Yeah. |
1:16.0 | I mean, we are the only country. We're in the only country right now that is not in lockdown, |
1:21.0 | not even a partial lockdown. You know, people are really told just to, if you have any symptoms, stay home. |
1:27.0 | Yeah, just stay at home. But great schools are still open. Restaurants are trying to survive. |
1:33.0 | People are out and about doing errands. The people that can work from home, they do work from home now. |
1:38.0 | Most people that I know, but I think the nature of Swedes, we're kind of good at distancing. |
1:45.0 | Because we're not really, you know, heavy, hugging people. |
1:50.0 | We're not kissing or set up. |
1:55.0 | Now, I'm the crazy American here who's embracing and hugging and talking to everybody and saying, hi. |
2:01.0 | So this is my first time out, hence my math, in a month. |
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