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Keith_Valentine posted...

I dont get why it exploded here so badly but places like Sweden that were originally very laid back in tgeir enforcement didnt have anything like this.

Sweden's government took a lassiez Faire approach, but the people there still refrained from going out. It was far from a free for all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/sweden-economy-coronavirus.html

Swedish people responded to the fear of the virus by limiting their shopping not enough to prevent elevated deaths, but enough to produce a decline in business activity.
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. They studied spending patterns from mid-March, when Denmark put the clamps on the economy, to early April. The pandemic prompted Danes to reduce their spending 29 percent in that period, the study concluded. During the same weeks, consumers in Sweden where freedom reigned reduced their spending 25 percent.

Strikingly, older people those over 70 reduced their spending more in Sweden than in Denmark, perhaps concerned that the business-as-usual circumstances made going out especially risky.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/17/how-sweden-fought-coronavirus-and-what-went-wrong.html

Many in Sweden say that public health officials didnt mandate certain behaviors, in part because they didnt need to. Restaurants, bars and salons might have remained open, but they were relatively empty compared with the months before the pandemic. Moreover, many people avoided gathering in large groups, particularly indoors.

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kin to all that throbs