SWEDEN DURING CORONAVIRUS - REAL FOOTAGE
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Real, unedited footage of life in Sweden during the Coronavirus pandemic. Footage shot in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. The city has a population of 1 million and a population density of 3,300 per square mile. Life has remained almost normal, but there are certain safety measures in place meant to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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I love how they respect their community, the place is spotlessly clean and free from rubbish/trash
Sweden looks clean but that doesn't help to stop the spread of a pandemic, Swedes are in large very egoistic and vain and therefore you seldom see folk use masks, thay do not give a shit if they infect someone, and if you ask why they do not use a mask you get the answer, "for there is little chance that I did", never "Other do not know if I am healthy or not, so I do it to show respect to folk around me and to reduce the chance for spreading the virus".
@@makombi32 Mask makes it worse for the one who wears it. The masks that really helps, are very expensive, with exchangable bio filters. Those are very difficult to come by right now, on top of that. And there are time limitations that a mask actually can be worn, before the risks of contagion is imminent.
It's better to wear a visor that covers one's whole face.
Really? As a Swede that lives close to and often visit Gothenburg I don't think it's that clean. Just out of curiosity, what are you comparing with?
@Lotta Karlsson I never said that. I said if the other guidelines were to be followed, a mask wouldn't make any difference. Where I live everyone has been really good with respecting the virus, and we haven't seen many cases. I have seen a total of 1 person wear a mask.
@@kennylex The death toll is reducing and is situation has been contained. I don't see how wearing mask would improve further?
Hardly any overweight people either, and they're all outside getting sunshine and fresh air.
Yeah I noticed that too..... was actually overwhelmingly obvious
We do have overweight people over here :)
They are just not out and exercise as much so that's why you dont see them out in the wild as much lol.
"Me, the pale depressed girl in bed" 😬Yes, totally out in the sun, every day
I have so much respect for Sweden now, thanks for posting this :)
Finland is taking kind of a mixed approach to the epidemic: not as strict as the US but also not as liberal as Sweden. Terraces have been closed for a while now, altough they are just now opening up for a limited time every evening. Stores are very much open, although the hours might be a bit different compared to a normal situation. Restaurants are doing only take out and delivery, so you can’t go in and eat. Finland’s death rate is extremely low, which is of course positive, though we’ll have to see how we’ll do now that they’re opening up bars and such.
Just keep it out of the elder care... that's where 80% of our deaths comes from. A complete failure in that regard. If you remove all the eldercare facilities from the rest though I feel like the Swedish approach is not a bad idea. Just my opinion here, mind.
Isn't social distancing just regular Finnish behaviour? (At least that's what the webcomic Scandinavia and the World has led me to believe.)
@@frankbruder3097 No it's not. Many people says here, that the hardest part of social distancind is not able to hug friends and relatives. We do give people more personal space but not in every situations and we also have places where social distancing is not fully possible. It is not just the six feet or 2 meter distance, but also about how well the air is moving. Small closed indoor spaces with many people, that is the worst in Finland and in every country.
@@evawettergren7492 Deaths are not the only unwanted thing about this virus. The virus can left permanent damage also for younger people's body. Nobody can know for sure what the end result will be. It' like a Russian roulette playing with this disease.
@@NimuelNightfire well I'm finnish girl but i'm not used to hugging anyone if there hasn't been a long time since seeing them. (and they have to be important people i'm qenuinely happy to see) Maybe just how my parents raised me or local culture in lammi and lahti😂 idea of hugging a friend is weird to me, ystävä(a true friend) maybe, if the situlation feels natural
It is so beautiful out there. One of the places where nobody is wearing masks. It seems like a free world
Would swedish government enforce mask usage we would for the most part follow. Unlike many other countries we trust our government enough to listen.
It's generally a country that is anti control, the government isn't even allowed to put up cameras that track cars on the freeway. But it's by no means perfect, we have a lot of issues as well, but it's pretty free, like opposite of China I would say.
@@neazenzen372 Don't write about shit you don't have a clue about. I live in sweden and it's one of the only countries in the world which has government controlled massmedia. More than 70% of swedens population get their news from these newschannels, all of which are controlled and regulated by the government. The word "corruption" isn't allowed in the news, even when a major scandal in 2016 revealed government officials gave checks amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars to their friends and family.
in Sweden we try with recommendations instead of enforcing laws regarding Covid-19 pandemic. most people follow the recommendations but then there are those who do not follow the recommendations to 100% but still follows to some extent.
Thank you so much, Evan, for doing this video. Very informative. I'm Finnish, now living in the US (my brother has lived in Sweden for years)... and I have to say. that it is so much more "oppressive" feeling here in t he States right now. And the "fear" in a way is the worst! (Well, of course the 40 million lost jobs are beyond the worst!) You are really performing a "service" keeping people informed Stateside... You should have 40 million subscribers (not 40K) in my opinion, as your Vlogs are so interesting. Stay well! Love to Julia! Greetings from Atlanta.
Hi 👋 it was me who scared you today on Korsvägen😅 just wanted to say I really enjoy the videos (especially the sweden vs. us ones😋) and that you’re both doing a great job❣️😊🙌🏼
This a great example how an educated nation reacts to a pandemic.
not really, for this you have to look at Norway and Finland. Sweden has the same death rate per capita as United States.
@@op-z I expressed how an educated nation reacts unlike our U.S.A friends there reaction was it didn't exist.
@@op-z you do have a valid point the death rate in the U.S.A is 194,500.
@@ronoldihenriquez5575 Well, I guess you're right on the part where they actually made a "decision" (not a great one, but they did, unlike the US, which had to make local choices). The death rate compared to the number of population is 0.05-0.06 in both Sweden and US.
@@ronoldihenriquez5575 Deaths in Sweden: 5,851, Deaths in Finland+Norway: 604
Basicly nothing changed where i live (in grums in sweden) well the only change for me is washing my hands even longer and more.
TheHypedMonkey
Nothing ever change in Grums, except Gruvön 😏
Yh me too lol I wash my hands longer and more frequently.
Covid-19 wont go near Grums because of the smell.
@@johanhansson4574 The smell is honestly awful.
@@ariellango8963 elders is a cost to the state economy with all citizens over 65 being entitled to state pension. You get about 1000$/month even if you never worked a day of your life, free healthcare and so on.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste".
Looking at how bad society has been protected it's tempting to suspect they didn't try too hard to stop the spread amongst our weak. The sheeple will keep voting for the same parties responsible for this.
They will keep consuming the same media news sources.
After viewing this and your other video about truth... i can honestly say that the health of Americans is their worst enemy. Yes I’m American but it’s the truth.
And in the UK. With the exception of the old , most of those dying have illnesses due to obesity.
Well... in sweden... your health insurance is more or less included in your taxes so there is no reason not to seek medical help if you need it.
Sure there is a flat fee per visit (around $20 or so bucks... 120-240SEK ) but once you reach a spesific amount you get a "high cost card" which makes the rest of the visit for the next 1 year period free.
And this is because we consider healthcare a basic human right.
The death rate per capita is exactly the same as in United States, so nothing for Swedes to celebrate here :/
More than 30.000 people are dying of HUNGER in the world everyday, but I don't see anyone talking about that... I guess for the stream media what matters is not how many people are dying, but where they are dying...
I liked the part about the 6 month quarantine us Swedes have already had
Its at 6:10
For a great evaluation if the Swedish approach, its complexities and what we can learn from it check out: th-cam.com/video/e92p_5we6qQ/w-d-xo.html
I came to the comments section just to say the same thing.. "Sweden has been in lockdown for 6 months now. It's called winter" lol
Haha yeah that's true. There's not many around in winter!
@Roger Andersson what does the political orientation have to do with it? Norway and denmark have similar political landscape, and have done it completely different.
I'm glad to see that Sweden treat this pandemic as it should be treated in every country: as a kind of a bad flu, not as an apocalyptic virus.
@River Piscean Yes, that was a huge failure on our part. But it was just the last straw on the back of a hugely critizised elder care system in Sweden that has been going down hill for decades. If anything good comes from this at all I hope it will be a complete overhaul of the elder care system in Sweden. If you look outside of the elder homes and see how the general population is doing you'll see that the way we handle things is not a disaster at all. The damage done to the economy will probably cause as many death (loss of jobs, depression, domestic violence and so on... all known causes of death.) as the virus though... just a bit difficult to tell until after a few years.
@@evawettergren7492 not only on our part, 13 european countries has failed with that just as much it would seem.
@River Piscean Exactly!
@River Piscean The elderly in Sweden are not worth a SHIT!!
@River Piscean And that is NOT because there was no lockdown. We have many old people in Sweden and the health care system for older people has been bad for many years. Many who work there only work "hours" and they do not have much of an education. Therefore the virus could come into the system easier and also reached more older people than in many other countries. I am happy to live in Sweden. My life has not changed at all these months. Well, some changes but they were for the better. It will be easy to forget this year in Sweden. And life will go on like it should.
Thank you so much for this video. I was studying abroad in Gothenburg and my program wasn't supposed to end until the beginning of June but my home university cancelled all programs abroad. I had to return to California mid- March, I cried so hard when I got the news. So the walk through you did took me back to my time in this amazing city and country.
Wellcome back when all is ok again . Stay safe
Annika Hasselqvist awww thank you!!!
Such a beautiful documentation of my home town! Nice to see :)
I wish was there right now , I did lots of tours in the eighties all over Sweden giving concerts . Loved it. The right approach n my opinion .
The US media is painting a picture that it’s total mayhem there. Amazing to see the “Chaos”. Amazing place. I’d love to holiday there. Maybe not during winter although the skiing must be amazing.
Because US media is totally fked up...
Right! That's how I found this video because I dont listen to most of the U.S. fake news, I do my own research
There was "chaos" for a while. They improperly dealt with elderly, so one elderly got sick, and then it spread through the elderly homes in stockholm. That caused majority of deaths.
The thing with lock down is that it likely doesn't work unless it's a proper lock down for 1-2 months. Everyone has to be locked in, if 10% are breaking the lock down there's barely any difference between a lock down and no lock down... Or something like that.
I live in stockholm and the picture in stockholm is the same over here as in Göteborg.
The only big fail i think sweden deserves is how they handled their elderlycare and that was mostly lack of PPE since the hospitals got the priority so the elderlycare and the other "non critical" care got the breadcrumbs.
This all roots in sweden dismantled our emergency stock for stuff like war (and pandemic) so we have no real army and the risk of war is too low so they wanted to save money.
After the Covid pandemic there will be a shit storm when people need to be held acountable for these screwups but for now people are waiting for the right time to cause a fuss about it since most people agree going out and demonstrating and social distancing is not a compatible mix.
I did volonteer early on in Stockholm Makerspace to make some PPE ( the open source ones like #3dvfaceshield and a few other members also made a plastic gowns out of construction plastic since the situation could have been a lot worse back then if the elderly care did not get at least some PPE ).
There was a group in NY that also did the same thing as us called "Matter hackers" and just days after we released our files (open source) we saw a bunch of other makerspaces over the world using the files we released (italy was first as far as we saw on twitter) or used a modified version of them which was so wholesome and fun to watch unfold and we got featured in the news as a community effort and random people came by to give us free soda and candy to keep our suggar levels high so we could keep a 24/7 shift going :)
We had a whole distrubution chain going where everyone with a 3D printer could send in PPE so we could distribute them.
But i can say i observed a lot of people keep their distance like normal so i think very little changed for us and everyone listens and follows the govs recommendations.
Only thing that really changed in my everyday life is i'm less likely to touch a railing if i dont have to in the subway or a buss.
But i dont think the swedish model of handeling this would work if the population is not following the recommendations the government has issued.
As i said sweden does deserve some shit for how unprepared we where ( PPE ) and how our elderly care system was handled.
Anyhow if anyone wants links or such as a source validation or to these files for the PPE... let me know.
@@tbbw yeah, seems like alot of countries have stuffed up with how they handled the elderly situation.
The thing that made me a solid backer of the swedish model is the ferrocity all mainstream westwern media exhibited while attacking it....
So jealous! Sweden= the new land of the free and home of the brave
The home of genocide currently.
@@ninasmith9572 Of who?
@@SomeOnesSon80 eh......no
FED MAS yeah actually. The highest death rate now for over 2 weeks. 5th highest deaths per capita in the world, and a population so fkn stupid that you actually still think you're good.
@@SomeOnesSon80 You cant count numbers in the middle of a pandemic. Rumours told that italy havent reported 19000 cases of corona deaths. If you look at numbers from other years in sweden excess death number are not that high.
That’s how it should be. Our government here in Thailand is crazy about taking the infection rate to zero. As a result, we have more people committed suicide due to economic problem than those who died because of the virus. (And by those I mean some 70+ frail people with pre-existence health conditions).
Omg, thats horrible!
terrible, finally the people will see government is not wonderfull mum and dad taking their kids(citizens) best intrest in mind and hearth
Most governments are tyrants and readily adopt the policies of the WHO and the UN since they will get more interest free loans from the World Bank.
Good on Sweden for having the foresight and courage to take the sustainable but unpopular path
Thanks for this video. It was lovely to see people enjoying themselves and having contact with other people. It was lovely to see people not living in fear. I live in the UK and we have been in lockdown for 11 weeks. Rules have been relaxed a little recently.
Likes the video, live i Gothenburg so I agree with your presentation. Things were quite different back in April though.
Perhaps could have mentioned that the policy is super clear that if you have ANY symptoms you should relay stay at home, regardless of age.
Same in Stockholm exept a lot of us rely on the busses and subway so rush hour subway... hard to social distance but most i'we spoken to have had no issues negotiating coming in an hour later and leaving an hour later to avoid rush hour.
And they closed off the front of the busses to keep the drivers safe so everyone does not need to walk up to the driver to get on the buss :)
Or work from home if possible.
2:40
More accurately it says "You may have to wait a little longer today"
It's just a nuance that doesn't really matter, but I still thought I'd mention it.
Super interesting to see. Happy Sweden is doing well!
Surprised at how diverse the population is, wasn't expecting that.
Officially there's more than 20% foreign-born people in Sweden. There's likely quite a bit of illegal immigrants around too though so maybe it could be 25% or so too. There's closer to 40% people who either are immigrant or have at-least one immigrant parent though. And it's very quickly changing.
80 years ago there was about 1% immigrants in Sweden and for a long time most common immigrant in Sweden was people from Finland which we had been the same country as for a long time so not really much of a difference. There was this wave of people from former Yugoslavia and then a bunch of people from Iraq and then the Syrians but they really poured on the tap from Afghanistan and later Africa too. The amount of black people are exploding. At-least in this city. Here I always feel like it's more immigrants than Swedes for the whole city though I live in an area with maybe 5-10% Swedes so I may be wrong then again there's many areas in this city which have a lot of immigrants so I kinda feel it's pretty right. One use to see more immigrants than Swede up on the city but it could be because 1) It's a city (where some Swedes live outside of the city) and 2) Swedes work a lot whereas the immigrants not so much so they have time to just hang around in the city.
Also it's a weird claim. On one hand people claim races aren't real because there's not enough difference between various people and larger diversity among populations/humans as such but on the other hand people make claims like this about how diversity comes from having such and such sex or skin color not by just being you an individual among other individuals. How do those two make sense together? Wasn't Sweden diverse before too even if only inhabited by Swedes? Also it's pretended that visible differences lead to superior intellectual and behavorial insight over what could be accomplished otherwise yet Sweden is a society which totally hate someone thinking differently and not agreeing with the majority. So true intellectual diversity is thrown upon I guess mostly because those who do so are socialists and if people think different and want something else then that's challenging their socialist society and dreams so we can't have that. So because of that skin color and whatever sex organ you have is the only diversity we get. Enough is enough. As if that actually meaned anything as for true diversity, as said.
Check the deaths per capita......
yes we are happy- cause we dont care about all the dead....
@ why has everyone come up north, the winters are cold?
@Mai A Mainly old people though and already before this, we struggled to handle the pensions cuz we had too many old.
Sweden is not doing well whatsoever. They have the highest death-rate per-capita right now. Not sure why they thought social distancing was a suggestion, but they are certainely paying the price for it now. They are getting fucking destroyed!
thanks for this man! I've been watching Sweden on the Johns Hopkins site and this video really explains it, very much unlike the way it is here in the US. the shutdown may have ruined us here. thanks again!
Lockdown for everybody is insane. Old and unhealthy people has to self isolate if they want to be safe. Almost nobody without health issues under age 60 has died in Sweden. Why should they be isolated? They need to go to work...
I wish Trumph had take the covid-19 serious at begining . I hope you do your best go stay safe . I have selfisolate for months now. But i live close the Forest has a dog and 2 horses so i can ride to the lakes and talk with ppl ön distance when they fisching or walk in Forest.
Thank you for doing a follow up video on how you both are And how things are fairing in your city. I greatly appreciate it. Be well be safe!
I'm from Milan and I do not think the same approach would have worked here: 10 mios inhabitants, over 16.000 deaths. Most of us wear a mask willingly despite the heat: what we've gone through is scary, we do not want to go through it a second time (possibly).
The problem with most Italians is they don't inform themselves. I'm one of those rare Italians who does such thing. The covid-19 does nothing to most people. 80% of people with the virus just has a flu or a cold. Among the deceased, 96% suffered from many serious illnesses. It's very rare the covid-19 kills someone who's healthy. I was never afraid of this corona virus as I inform myself. Wearing a face mask outdoors if you're alone, or if you take social distance, is a nonsense. In Germany and Switzerland people were never forced to wear face masks outdoors, yet they have fewer deceased than we do.
@@pinky6789 actually I do inform myself .... but most of all it has been a scary experience for me as a person: some people I know got Covid-19: for some was like a flu, 2 were extremely sick, one ended up in an ICU bed and made it by the skin of her teeth. They were all under 60. So, yes it is true it is quite a mild disease for many, but certainly not for all. I wear a mask when I am in a group of people, not when I am alone, that would not make sense.
Well it doesnt work here either. Check the deathcount per capita........
@@pinky6789 You didn't passed it, right? I had a considered "mild" covid, and.... I really don't recommend the experience
The question still is...Who dies?
Almost no healthy people under 60 has died in Sweden. Older and unhealthy people has to self isolate. Why should everybody do it?
Thank you for shedding the light!
Very well described. I live in Gothenburg. This is how is it is.
I can also say that apart from the recommendations;
Clean your hands often and Keep distance, the health auhorities also urge us not to travel on public transportations unless we really have to (and yes they are crowded). They also urge us not to travel more Than 2 hours away from Home - in case you'd get ill; so you can get Home (easier) and not to be a Cost to another county's wellfare/hospital Cost. Further more; when possible many People work from home; decreading risk of getting Corona not being too many at work at the same time as well as not having to go on public transportations so often. The empoyees at Volvo are on a Lay off for like 40% of their work hours but get i think 92% of their salary - thanks to state/gouvernment agreements. Where as many empoyees in for example hotel and restaurants have lost their job completely so unrmployment rate has definetely increasd due to Corona virus.
@SB Kim Russian troll? Anonymous account without videos.
Thank you. It's good to see the entire world has not gone crazy.
This is really interesting. You do a good job of presenting it, too, in an unbiased and thoughtful way. Thank you for sharing it!
Off topic but a bit of memory lane for me. I was in your beautiful city in 1980 when I brought my high school basketball team for a week long stay.
Wonderful people glad to see all is well.
Tak sumika!
Me and my girlfriend were just in Gothenburg like a week before the Uk went into lockdown
Sweden has been in lockdown for 6 months, it's called Winter 😃😃😃
Great video! Thanks man
Thanks so much for your video! Gave me peace of mind as I am moving to Gothenburg from the US in July
Welcome and you shouldnt be afraid. Many wants to say that sweden is in chaos but as a swede i hardly doesnt see it in the streets. If you look at our excess death tolls they are quite as usual. Sweden are safe if you keep distance and follow the advices.
Love the swedish model ;) Thanks for this video - Makes me miss when I lived there
Tack för en superbra video, både innehållsmässigt och visuellt👍
Here in New Zealand no one wear masks, no need to social distance, no crowd limitations and see plenty of our elderly out and about not afraid of catching covid-19. No community transmission for months now after initial hard 6 week lockdown. Now waiting for the rest of the world before reopening our borders. NZ has half the population of Sweden and only 22 covid-19 deaths. Sad to see in the video which looks like a city of young people.
Hi... I am a Korean granny living in Seoul, the capital city of Korea. I have visited Pitea, Sweden around this time last year...and one of my grand daughter is working at Stockholm ... so we worried a lot about her... and sent her some masks ( even that was not easy though )... Yes, it is still spreading here... about 30 ~ 40 conformation a day... half of them is oversea flow... and total death in nation wide is 289 by today, July 14th. population density is very very high in Seoul... but only a few fatalities... why ? we started to wear masks and tried to fallow the government guide lines just after it happened here. ... anyway, good luck for your country !!! I am subscribing your channel. and hope you do that.. I am just a baby youtuber , started during selfquarantine.
Gorgeous flowers and city. So much more relaxed about things.
Yes but this is not for the better right now.
Especially relaxed about letting the old go
Thanks for a good, non-biased reportage from how the real Sweden is right now!
And that's in a big city, in a small town like me you feel less of the change.
I also in general agree with our approach, although of course some things could have been done better but hey, no country or person is perfect. And so true about the "6-month lockdown", aka. winter, haha. At least 6 months, from October to March. But also if the weather is bad on let's say an April day, so yeah, you learn how to appreciate the sun and warm weather when you're from here, haha. Cheers.
Love thiz, thanks for showing Sweden, keep safe, see you around
You guys are actually my favorit youtobers right now.🤩
A friday afternoon, after working hours, same week as we get paid. Never in all the years I lived, 37 to be specific, in Gbg have I seen sososo few people out and about! As I mostly worked in restaurants and bars I can also point out that when spring and summer hits Sweden it's usually extremely busy. Obviously not all people keep the recommendations on social distancing in mind but this footage show that since a lot of people have decided to go home rather than stay in town and enjoy themselves it is, as a whole, a recommendation that seems to work in general.
Thank you for posting this. I'm from upstate NY and we don't have that freedom since March
For a great evaluation if the Swedish approach, its complexities and what we can learn from it check out: th-cam.com/video/e92p_5we6qQ/w-d-xo.html
Eleni Tashjian
Freedom? We got freedom now we’re rioting and becoming the purge. I hate it honestly.
It's a bit different. New York is so dense and I think the situation has the potential to get out of control very fast. Sweden overall is sparsely populated. What you see in this video is the very city center of the second biggest city in the country. It doesn't get much busier than this.
Very nicely done and filmed, thanks! I would love to come and live in Sweden in those conditions...
Such a great overview. Thanks!
Totally respect Sweden's approach. Most people in the video are young and so older people are isolating. I spotted one person in a mask
Old and weak are dying in Sweden. They are not even admitted to hospitals, not given treatment. Just "put to sleep" with morphine, while their families cannot visit them and see what is going on.
Look at the death numbers, people!
@@asbisi Idiot! If they cant survive a treatment with a ventilator the won´t get it because that will prolong their suffering. And Excess death numbers are telling us that sweden are doing it almost as we doing it in a year without a pandemic.
COVID 19
nombre de morts par pays par million d’habitant
1/ Grande-Bretagne 622
2/ Belgique 598
3/ Espagne 577
4/ Italie 562
5: Suéde 452
6/ France 434
Pays du Nord
Allemagne 115
Danemark 101
Finlande 56
Norvège 44
asbisi old and weak always die. Not just now🤦🏻♀️
Social distancing is so last week in the U.S. too❗Now it's riots❗
Looked like thousands(?) meet in Stockholm too. Someones life mattered so much they said fuck it to a bunch of others.
The whole narrative may be false anyway. Yeah cops in the US act hard. Yeah people are killed by cops in the US. Yes this guy likely got killed by the cop and unnecessarily so. Relative population size more black people are killed by the police in the USA. I'm sure racism is a thing now and then very likely in both directions (as in black on white too.) Now the question is 1) Was this specific guy killed by a racist police and more importantly: Is it a general trend / problem in the USA that people are. Because the whole point kinda of the demonstrations is the last point there. But as far as I know black people in the USA commit more of for instance violent and homocide crimes relative their population size asnd that of course put you at risk. There may be a problem in that the police is dangerous but is the police and justice system actually unfair or are black people simply committing more crimes and hence facing the consequences to a larger extent. That's the deciding factor for whatever those demonstrations and claims are fair (well as long as they don't become something beyond a demonstration) and valid or not.
You mean protesting injustice.
@@soulsbourne we likely have a 0.5% - 1% death rate like most countries with old populations. We have had a strategy that doesn't involve testing of mild cases. They're just asked to stay home.
@Roger Andersson how can any country be "doomed" by a disease that kills some retirees?
@@soulsbourne you're missing the point. Sure you can die even if you're not old, but in Sweden, of almost 5000 deaths, about 200 were below the age of 60. If this virus runs its course through the population, it'll kill 10x that. How does this spell doom? It simply doesn't. Btw, I wish you a long life and excellent health.
great video. thanks for showing us what everyday life on Friday looks like. The other media didn't talkj about theplexy glass, etc.
Been a bus driver in Sweden all year........not dead, not sick, just knackered as it have been less drivers over summer period as many are at home or having their holiday, at home or out in nature.....we are nature loving....so just exhausted from over work.....
I wanna move to Sweden asap!
Ms. Molly the winter in sweden is great. There are a lot of activities to do. You only have to find something that suits you. For an example i allways play hockey with the people in my village or go skiing.
Me too. Hehehe Beautiful place and beautiful people. :)
Im swedish and i think it is to hot when it is around 20C xd
Sweden closed borders to most non-EU travellers.
Don't come here it's shit. People overhype us way too much. I dunno where the propaganda comes from that Sweden is an amazing place. I've lived here my whole life and it's ok but extremely boring, but as I said not amazing.
Wonderful video - these all the sort of things we should be doing here in the UK ! Getting outside and enjoying the sun ! Thank you for sharing
Graphicxtras.com Tbh a lot of people in the Uk are already doing that and schools are reopening today too, which is really good :)
Hello
Thanks for doing this! I lived in Sweden for 10 years, and yeah the every year winter lockdowns are what got me out of there. Good to see normal life ❤️
Supriced you did not start a family during those 10years cause what else is there to do during winter lockdown? ;)
tbbw I did. Lol
yea, these winters are depressing, but after 34 years i'd still rather that than move back to England.
This was a great video Evan. We American’s have been fed a steady diet if why Sweden failed with Covid. You and I know the main failure was early on with old folks much like New York but that’s rarely mentioned here. And you rates of infection and deaths look to be almost zeroing out. When did you make this video exactly and can you make something more current? You also mentioned another video about the truth of Covid in Sweden but I don’t seem to see a link. As you know many states are heading to another lockdown and masks are now the rule. I want to spread the word that Sweden does indeed appear to have beaten the virus or at least made a respectable fight without lockdowns or masks. Thanks for the informative video and I look forward to more. Hank from Oklahoma
It looks pretty much the same, except they opened up cinemas now :) I just can’t get the mask idea, there is no valid scientific proof that it works but still everyone says its the main factor why the disease has come down in their country. Washing hands and social distancing have on the other hand been proven to work. Why have our numbers been steadily declining since April without mask or a massive lockdown?
For Western countries this kind liberal approach is working but I live in Delhi, india 🇮🇳 here the population density is insane and I really don't know what is going to happen once this lockdown ends
India has the advantage of being extremely hot in most places. Corona viruses do not survive well in warmer climates, hence people get colds and flus almost exclusively during the colder months in the states
Actually it DID NOT worked for them....worst dead per capita in the whole world !!
@@shinonkim4814 . We still do not know warm climate do prevent catching the virus ( Brazil too is warm ) . But the only fact is sure, india is a very young countries and they do not have the tradition to concentrate elders in retired home.
Thanks for posting this! It feels amazing to see that people are still normal in this world.
Some Swedish People had a big ego (selfish), thay dont take this pandamic as they had to do! Its so sad!! I’m Swedish and dont go out in stores because of thees egos. Many Many people die here😩
@SB Kim Hold om here! Tegnell stated that they could have taken harder measures earlier..but the info on the virus was not available at that time. And deaths is true to the fact that idiots working in nurse homes brought the virus in. More that 85% of deaths in is the elderly groups with low immune system.
SB Kim if you had done your research you would have known that herd immunity was never the goal, but would have been a plus. The goal was to have a society that would be able to function for years. Because no one knows how long Corona Will be going around. Its not sustainable to have a lockdown for years.
@Andreas Hansson sluta kolla på EABT, det är inte hälsosamt
SB Kim please do a little research before commenting, you just look stupid at this point.
Evan...things are getting crazier by the minute here in the U.S. --can you do a follow up video now that it six months later, your numbers look great, and folks have all eyes on you looking speculating that "second spike" that will do you in. I SO appreciate the past two videos.
The situation looks very similar to Warsaw, Poland. We are in the yellow zone now, there might be some more restrictions after the weekend, but the city center, the buses, the shopes - pretty much the same here.
Your town in Sweden looks really beautiful. I love how Sweden is very relaxed about restrictions. United States has gone really bad recently. The staff are yelling at clients who do not wear masks in supermarkets and takes their shopping carts away and kick them out of the stores.
I heard that they put in the Military in the US and also saw in an arcticle that they deployed an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter over a crowd of rioters to do a show of force. Seems to be getting out of hand in the US
Silvia Logan : yes that has happened. In Denver and smaller Boulder CO it’s a bit more relaxed. A few stores are OK with no masks. And our federal post office you don’t have to wear a mask. That’s kind of wild!
At least, we can recieve health care if we become ill. I understand if ppl in the stores in the US are careful.
PLEASE read my comment! We are sacrifying thousands of old Peoples lives!!! That is not a good nor human way to handle Corona. We should wear masks also due to how many that are now beeing infected! In Sweden every tested 7th person has the Coronavirus, in U. K every 46 and France every 57.....that says a lot about why many contries dont wish us to visit them and we are also banned to visit our scandinavian neighbours in Norway, Denmark and Finland which I can understand.... There approach has been sucessful or is not!
@@kirstenekholm8098 we are not sacrificing anyone. If you want to wear a mask, go ahead. To me, its too late as we are at the tail end slope of this pandemic in Sweden. Switching gears now will do nothing.
I just watched the "What's Really Happening In Sweden" video which is a month old. I wanted to see if anything changed since then. It looks pretty much the same as you described before.
Yeah its still the same here
Evan. Brilliant video.Thank you.
great job, keep these videos coming out
I have mixed feelings about the Swedish approach. I live near Boston, which is one of the hardest hit metro areas in the US. We have a very strong sense of independence here, and a pervasive "I'll do what I want" attitude, which is why the Swedish way won't work here. I have been to Gothenburg many times (my mother's side of the family comes from Gothenburg and Kungalv) and I appreciate that Swedes trust the government recommendations to keep them safe, and they follow the rules so well. In these times it makes me wish I was there instead of here in Boston.
Yes indeed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart%E2%80%93Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_world
For a great evaluation if the Swedish approach, its complexities and what we can learn from it check out: th-cam.com/video/e92p_5we6qQ/w-d-xo.html
What works in sweden does not necessarily work for other countries. They all have to act according a lot of different factors.
Yeah but I am a Swede, and the schools are not closed here and everyone is in the city as normal and I don’t think so many here cares sadly :/
@@amphxelia9480 youre fortunate. meanwhile the whole world feels locked up and like theyve done something wrong. covid ia lie.
Hi Evan and Julia: Here in Milwaukee, we have been hit very hard with the Corona virus. It has been roughly three months and our Mayor has still not opened up the city for business. You are only allowed outside to get food and gas for your car, as we are experiencing meat and paper shortages mostly due to hoarding. A few months back the furnace repair man came to our house and shortly afterwards both him and his wife got the virus and almost died, but survived. We were tested and they said we also had the virus at one time? We got sick for two days right after the repair man came to our house but it was not bad. As luck would have it, our city is now experiencing rioting the last two days. We have had numerous businesses burned down as the culprits have broke into liquor stores, banks, and Target department stores. They are seen taking cells phones, televisions, liquor, and designer shoes. A police officer has also been shot. Things are not going well here at all. Thank you for telling us the truth how things are going in your city. Almost everyone here is wearing mask and or gloves. Take care, Steve and Jayne
Crazy times indeed in the US. Stay safe!
Oh so sorry to hear this, these riots need to end this isn't what George would have wanted or Martin Luther king.
Thank God u are ok tho.
From U.K.
Really wow. That's terrible😔 Hope things get better there! Ps I am from Milwaukee too!!
Sweden handled this a lot more smartly than USA.550 deaths out of 1.7 million in your county,which has the second biggest city in the country. Why would anyone be worried. If I'm not mistaken,Sweden's death rate is .4% and USA is .31%,so not a big difference. Except, Sweden never closed and didn't ruin their economy and people's lives with the highest unemployment rate since the great depression. Not only that, but herd immunity happens much quicker. Sweden's government was rational and level headed, instead of trying to hype fear into the public.
Are u comparing 350 m vs 10 m population? Sweden isn’t doing good comparing to its neighbors, we have 5k deaths on hands of our government which is failing their herd immunity bs
@Quarantine by the sea Well then,I'm guessing that it would have been even much worse if they had locked the economy down. The numbers and facts from doctors and epidemiologists are that the people who are vulnerable and dying have preexisting health problems or are just weak elderly people or both. These are the people that need to be locked down for their own good. Not really much of a problem for the rest of us.
Hey I also live in Göteborg but only since January!! So funny to see these streets where I am often on your video :) Maybe I will see you someday walking around! Lol
I admire the Swedish decision of letting life to continue as normal. Here in the States, politics and media have influenced more than the same virus and the drastic locked downs have changed our lives forever 🙁. Thanks for the walks through the city, I had the opportunity to visit it last year and I fell in love 😍 with people, infrastructure, culture... EVERYTHING is amazing! 🤗
I agree completely with Sweden's approach because it is evidence based medicine. Including the evidence that masks are not effective. People such as Prof Johan Giesecke and Dr Anders Tegnell have been excellent. There was at first a problem with securing the large frail care nursing homes and that was a tragedy. But overall, the Swedish approach is the way to go, causing minimal socio-economic problems and taking care about the right of citizens in free country to not be forced. Great video
as a swede i love that it says "real footage"
I live in Stockholm. It's the same. But probably more crowded.
But no one is keeping distance. How do you keep 2 metres in a city??
Even though Tegnell admitted that more repercussions were needed in the beginning of the pandemic I think they are doing an amazing job.
With admitting the mistakes done in Sweden:
1. We will have a better understanding of how to cope with a similar situation in the future, what worked and what didn’t work?
2. He proved that the government is willing to admit their flaws and work on their mistakes, instead of just pretending everything is ok
I feel like most countries refuse to admit their mistakes by faking death numbers, redirected focus to other countries and refusing to take note of other countries success.
COVID 19
nombre de morts par pays par million d’habitant
1/ Grande-Bretagne 622
2/ Belgique 598
3/ Espagne 577
4/ Italie 562
5: Suéde 452
6/ France 434
Pays du Nord
Allemagne 115
Danemark 101
Finlande 56
Norvège 44
That's not how I see it. Concerned people who weren't so sure our so called "covid-response" would cut it were and still are called "alarmist" etc. Our politicians of course said we have "great preparedness" so why should anyone do something about the situation? Then hospital supplies were running low and standards for protective equipment were lowered with the lame exchuse that it "wasn't needed". When the staff in elder care didn't have protective equipment they of course spread the sickness to the patients, many who suffocated and are still suffocating because there isn't oxygen in our elder homes, but solving that problem would actually mean acknowledging there IS a problem and we're too proud for that so we hear bullshit exchuses like "oxygen is so dangerous if not administred by a doctor", while many in the homes get MORPHINE to "ease the anxiety" but also make them suffocate faster... Even though neighboring countries seems to have contained the virus with few new deaths even after lifting restrictions (they're actually testing and tracking infections, unlike us...), it seems like some sweeds and especially politicians are almost hoping that they soon will "catch up" to our high death rates (it's a long way to go...) since they mention it time after time while desperately defending our "strategy".
Unfortunately being a compromised male in my mid 50’s living in the US I am scared out of my mind. I know that is probably more damaging to my health then Covid is but I still can’t help myself.
I wish I was living in sweden
Katie Adams me too
You are wellcome here Katie😀
I too wish too
You would be either living or dying im Sweden,... that's like a lottery
It's really boring here. No need to come. It may look good in videos but they're showing the most inviting sights really. I think most people from more interesting countries get bored real fast here. Better save the money and stay in your more interesting country. Sweden isn't bad it's just dull, only Swedes who are used to dull stuff would like it here.
I live in Gothenburg. I have restricted myself to not travelling further than I can walk, which means a radius of 6 km. I would not advise taking travelling to the suburbs by public transport. In hindsight, the right decision seems to have been taken, but it was a gamble, and there are still outbreaks - there was one last week when there was a church choir meeting. Some of the shops and restaurants have still taken a hit. Screens in front of the cashiers are old school.
Nordstan has been almost empty. It is always quieter on Fridays because so many people are at the mosque. Shame he didn't show us Angered and Frölunda. That is a different Gothenburg.
Thanks Evan Thomas for this video. Niiiice ✌
Brilliant video. Always believed that this whole situation could be managed is such a clever and reasonable way. Thanks mate!
There is a really important factor which helped Sweden: The great majority of the population is healthy. Let's say it, the same approach in a country full of diabetes, obesity, and many unhealthy people would result in too many deads.
Very Clean there.. My brother lives in Bromma Stockholm with two daughters.and wife.
What I am doing as a swede; I wash my hands more often, I only move between work and home, I order take away and wear mask IF I have to go into a place that is crowded
are you chinese?
Where are the elderly. Not in hospital, not in the street. Just locked in nursery home. If they get sick they stay there. Such a nice place for young people
I live in Stockholm and I agree with our approach here in Sweden. I follow the daily updates on STV2 from our epidemiologist (i always forget his title) Anders Tegnell and his crew and ror me it all makes sense. I have a mom in self isolation (she´s over 70 and has health issues) and a dad that works from home and only go out to the store and for bike rides. They have done well so far. I was sick alot as a kid and hav had health issues in the past (autoimmune disorders) but are doing good now. I have actually had cobid 19 for a total of 6 weeks, I was asymptomatic for about 3-3,5 of those (on the middle) and had some cough, fever, head aches, pressure on my chest etc, but mildly. I stayed completely inside for 4 weeks total and two weeks in the middle when I had no symtoms I went outdoors but I did not do any shopping on my own and I haven´t met one single person except for my bf and two clients and their dogs (dog trainer and coach) at a safe distance. My experience anf from talking to friends who have had the virus is that swedes who get the virus are very mindful of other people so that not more people get infected - my main concern through all this is the elderly and the immunocompromised and I protect them as best I can by keeping a distance. I am not afraid to swear at someone for not keeping distance. My mom does some shopping on her own, like spring flowers for her garden (she lives in a small cabin in northern sweden) and she wears a mask so that no one goes near her. :)
For me it's never made sense then again I've been right and they have been wrong
I've always hated that they are either wrong or one have to guess what they actually meaned and fill in the blanks as in expect that they may have meant something else than what they said and that that may be correct.
For instance they said "there's no risk of people coming from abroad spreading the virus in Sweden", which didn't seemed correct considering there was some risk per person and a bunch of people coming in so of course there should be some risk from it, and as we found out we ended up having a spread here.
And then there was the study to the regions where they for whatever reason excepted the same result as in China as far as hospitalization and intensive care went amongs those diagnosed at the hospital even though we wouldn't test everyone whereas I assume they in China tried to test everyone they got hold of with symptoms and they also expected that at worst case scenario 1% would be diagnosed because that was twice what had happened in Italy and China. That open up for 0.2% of the population in hospital and 0.05% in intensive care. If one add the original Chinese numbers then that would had been 0.01% dead but with the later numbers it could also be 0.04% dead. But one important explaination for the 1% is that this was for "wave one." The problem with this is that 1) We didn't do the actions China or Italy did and in China they stopped the spread so what say it would stop at 1% here. 2) If we don't test everyone with symptoms but only those who end up tested at hospital why would we expect the same outcome among them as in China and 3) Even in worst case scenario this only had room for 4000 dead though he nevered mentioned those numbers in the FHM text but from the same assumption that's what it would had been and by now we've got more dead than that so clearly it didn't hold. We may have had less people in intensive care though so that could either mean that 1) People who need intensive care in Sweden aren't getting it or 2) We count more deaths than what they did in China.
As for his very first claim there he could had meant that there was "no chance" that it was spreading out in society AT THAT MOMENT. But that's not what he said. And if he say there's no risk then of course people will act like there is no risk which increase the odds for it to happen. And there always was some risk. If you want to tell how the situation is now then say so. Like "we have no indication we have public transmission anywhere in the country yet" - but he didn't.
Also you can't expect the good results if you don't practise the good behaviors which resulted in those good results. Sweden have always used a weaker response and then you kinda have to expect that it won't play out as good as in other places.
Thank you so much for this video! Here in L.A. I'm totally jealous, but I'm happy for you and everyone there.
I dont understand why you would envy this. Look at the deathrate per capita
You know why the swedes are right? It doesnt matter if you have more or less deaths than your neighbours, the important thing its that the goverment believes that people are the best ones to decide whats good for each individual and just gives advise to them. Im from argentina, here they decided to have one of the hardest lockdowns and for sure the longest one, weve already been in this for 91 days and they are planing to continue until SEPTEMBER, people is dying anyway and alone. Good luck.
They're creating a heard ammunity too which is good
@SB Kim In the second week of april 7 percent. What week is it now?
@SB Kim Where do you get this from, everyone is only looking at the numbers, look at the total deaths instead, we have 4500 deaths and USA has over 100.000, funny that you think that we have failed
Been saying this for a long time. Looks like Sweden had it right all along. This is what happens when people actually trust their government!
Also,maybe because they have a government worth trusting.
No one social distancing there is definitely risk of spread göteborg has already 5k cases that’s a lot. I don’t like the way government handling the virus. They have 5k deaths on their hands
@@brucefranklin6295 Not really true :-)
We do not trust the government in matter of politicians. But the politicians is not in charge in Sweden. The government model in Sweden is based of a delegation model where authorities gives recommendation to the politicians to perform, and it is
a political suicide to go against these recommendations.
Like Folkhälsomyndigheten with Anders Tegnell; it is not a political institution, it is a institution of officials and experts. But the politicians is in control of the financial allocations to the institutions.
Just look at who in different countries informs about Corona. Stefan Löven, our prime minister has just a few times make a speech, but the infectious protection experts gives daily press conferences.
Not sure if I translate this correctly, the foundations of our government model are several hundred years old and difficult to translate into pure roles and terms.
@@magnusemilsson7205 Thats how it supposed to work. But sadly in reality the officials in most instances are to a degree political. That what happens when you have had the same political party in power for 100 years.
@@conspiracypiracy6623 I think people in general have been pretty good at the social distancing up until like a week ago. I see a decline in discipline for each day now
lol "it's called Swedish winter." good one :)
hihi
Thank you for sharing. Best regards from Indonesia
Thanks for sharing, my second academic year is in Gothenburg.
Hi, cool video as always. How everybody in Sweden speaks english so good, when it's not native language there. Thanks
We started learning English at a very young age in school + we are influenced with English tv-shows/movies and music
@@juliarosen4394 Thanks for the info, greetings from Bosnia ;)
Amir Spaha And to add to Julias comment, we don’t do voice over, only subtitles (unless it’s for kids, then voice over) so we get to hear pronuciation and colloquial and everyday vernacular english.
his last name is not so Swedish.
I am kind of surprised that English not been made the second language for all people who have different first language. Globalisation of goods and services, but humans still not all into the new normal(one common language)
Everyone’s an expert in the TH-cam comments section 🤣
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Of course, but we can all have an opinion - correct or totally wrong !
ConSpirAcY piracy 🤔
Graphicxtras.com yes, definitely, we are all entitled to our opinion but many people speak as though they are an expert with all the facts and experience 😂
or just read facts c19.se/
sweden got the highest corona death toll in the world , while its neighbors got some of the lowest, because they close down first , then opened after getting the virus under control.
Thank you for sharing. Good to know there's still somewhere out there that respects human rights.
Are you going to add anymore?
I live in Sweden and I was sick in Covid 19, I followd Medical medium and I recovered fast.
And 4700 died
sparke29ify People die everyday.
How many people did you spread it too?
@@smisch7720 No one has been denied anything, in fact we have had far more medical equipment and resources then we actually had to use. The unfortunate deaths was a result of not putting the old people in quarantine at an early stage. The virus spread faster then expected.
@@MrMugg Mjeah i think a lot of people comfuse this with the priority list that Södersjukhuset and Danderyd released where if there was no room (or very low amount of free beds) if you was above a spesific age and had X amount of failed organs you would not get a spot in the hospital.
Evan Thomas that´s great that life is normal there!! I´m in the USA in Idaho, and it is actually pretty normal here in Boise. Man, Swedish Macdonald´s look a lot nicer than American Macdonals´s. Lol. Thanks for posting! It´s also great that most people are outside. Here, most everything outside is closed!! We need sun to fight this
Don't get why they'd close things that are outside? It is a lot less of a risk to get infected outside rather than everyone sharing the same circulated air indoors.
@@evawettergren7492 I know it is stupid
It must of been a while since you went inside a macdonald. Many them have been renovated and remodel now in recent years. They look as nice as the Swedish one.
Why TF are you saying MacDonalds it's not spelled or pronounced like that if anything it's micdonalds
I'm from Sweden, Stockholm. As a young man in my early 30s, healthy in every way, no alcohol or tobaccoo or sickness. I got covid-19. Was sick from late march until early june. First a fever, up to 40 in about one week. Then came the nightmare with breathing issues. I thought I was going to die many times since I couldn't breath at all. I ambulance came and I got help but didn't need to stay at the hospital, they said "it will be hard but you will survive". The rehability phase was during whole summer and I still got some issues with my body regaining physical strength, feels sometimes that I get a "random heart attack" out of nowhere.
I am glad my country Sweden is a free country and I am happy we are not on a lock-down. But the virus itself... I don't see Sweden as victorious since this virus is real and it's not a joke. Of everything I've experienced in my life, this is far the worst and I still wake up in my sleep with my brain telling me I can't breath...
thanks for work ... the life must continue
Nice video, my hometown for so many years. However I must say that in the last week ppl are getting way too relaxed about social distancing in Gothenburg ! The bar/ café in the canal you showed last is newly opened, the tables are packed so close so there is no chance of distancing. You should mention that some bars have been closed by health inspectors in Gothenburg until they have fixed the crowded situation. This bar should definitely be closed. This week I have seen so many ppl partying in Gohtenburg because of the student examinations, all the students want to party and nobody cares about social distancing ! We will see the result of this in a couple of weeks.!
YES! People are acting as if the virus is already gone! Going out and protesting in groups of thousands as well, this is total insanity! I have really come to hate the hivemind way of thinking in our society.
Something that comes from Swedes being afraid of speaking up for ourselves is that we are way more likely to become sheep who just follow what the herd do and think. Please, for the love of god, try to think for yourselves people.
Totally cool about the distancing and not wearing masks, but the blatant neglect of the elderly in Sweden is disgusting.
Richard Sandwell And So Are You my friend!
What matters most? The wearing of mask that could reduce the spread of the virus or just being cool? Immatured people will choose coolness over wearing mask of course.
@@darrendelong You know what's really cool? Understanding that surgical masks do not protect you from the virus. You need a face shield or N95 mask. Also if you're elderly you should stay home and avoid gatherings, it's not the general publics' responsibility to protect the 1% of the population at risk.
@@fatallyfresh3932 Yes, it would help reduce the spread esp when a person who is asymptomatic, wearing a mask can help prevent him from spreading to others.
@@darrendelong it is not true man. Turn off your TV.
Nice video. Just a fact check. Nordstan i Swedens 8th largest shopping centre. In scandinavia it would probably rank a bit lower than that.
We thank you for this video! You were doing what a journalist should do. Sad to see professional journalism hangin by a thread