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It’s a bit dear. When friends exchange hugs and handshakes for the raisin-shaped arms parts that are otherwise only used in street fights.
If it is a pandemic, it is.
It has been seven months since the celebrants of Swedish sporting life took the flight home from the Alps and went straight into society without any proof requirement.
So it was then. Now is now, almost 100,000 confirmed cases later.
Therefore, the country’s restaurants only allow table service. Guests, in turn, have the responsibility to keep their distance and stay home at the slightest sign.
It goes, in theory. In practice, it is different, despite the fact that infection is increasing in several Swedish regions. In recent times, social networks have been full of movies and images of people partying, without distance.
Towards the end of the weekend, a clip of the former Spy Bar roaster palace will air on Stureplan. What in the mid-2000s was the center of abs dancing in the solar system has been transformed into a place where people hang out. stands in groups and cranks.
Are these the same people who a few hours before have rubbed shoulders? Maybe.
Images abounded last week of two party leaders defying their fate. One was at a celebrity party in the aforementioned district, the other was at the 50th anniversary celebration in picturesque Oxelösund. Judging from the documentation, they kept everything but distance.
Let us ignore the fact that they are party leaders and have a special responsibility. If we consider all citizens, here is a crucial point: How many Swedes outside the risk groups can say with their hands on their hearts that they have followed the recommendations of the Public Health Agency every day?
Good.
At the party where one of the party leaders participated, someone ordered 300 moans, for example.
A simple answer is that the resistance is failing. After seven months of relative isolation, we are unable to live to the fullest while learning. An even simpler answer: alcohol. At the party where one of the party leaders participated, someone ordered 300 moans, for example.
Of all the alarms that have been received, few refer to congestion at meetings organized by IOGT-NTO. So it happens when we are super. For natural reasons, because disorder is what happens when we are super.
As early as April, the World Health Organization, WHO, issued special recommendations regarding alcohol. For one thing, false rumors abounded that alcohol could protect against COVID-19. On the one hand, there was the knowledge that alcohol weakens the immune system.
Above all, the logic, which the Swedish Public Health Agency also writes on its website but rarely emphasizes in its press conferences: “Drinking alcohol can increase our risk-taking and help reduce our ability to maintain physical and social distance.”
Some countries have tried to curb risks by closing all restaurants at certain times. He has gone that way. In Norway, the parties have moved. On the same weekend that the country introduced a ban on serving alcohol after midnight, house parties were held across the country.
It’s also no coincidence that ski travelers in the Alps, and in Åre for that matter, probably got infected when they were après ski. In Stockholm, a 60th anniversary party is suspected of being the zero point of the disease, after 70 out of 100 people fell ill.
Fit is not the sexiest word in Swede, but it is with that strategy that Sweden has so far escaped the second wave of the pandemic.
Now it should probably be applied on the bar as well.
