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Today, Explained

Why Sweden stayed open

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Kingdom of Sweden watched the world lock down and decided to do the opposite. Swedish journalist Nathalie Rothschild explains. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Did you hear the one about Sweden? The whole world was shutting down to deal with the pandemic,

1:08.4

and Sweden went the other way. So the biggest difference is no lockdown and no quarantine.

1:14.7

And obviously that means schools have stayed open, bars and restaurants, gyms,

1:21.3

hairdressers, why have you? Natalie Rothschild is a freelance reporter

1:25.9

based in Stockholm. She's been covering the country's response to the pandemic,

1:30.3

but she's also been living it.

1:32.2

So the other week, it was a very sunny weekend, and I looked at my window where I see bus stops,

1:45.2

and I see cafes and restaurants and a kind of a little shopping centre and that kind of thing,

1:49.6

and it was bustling. Lots of people everywhere, and you would not know that there was a pandemic on.

1:55.8

But then the next day, equally sunny Sunday, I took a ferry that's usually crammed with people

2:04.0

who was empty. There were about nine people on that ferry. I went to a zoo with my mom and my son,

2:10.8

and there was hardly anyone there. We walked through the city centre. It was dead. No one was out

2:15.2

shopping even though there were big sales on. Lots of stores that are normally open on the

2:19.4

Sunday had closed because lots of stores have limited their opening hours. We walked through the

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