No face masks, #NoLockdown, no closure of restaurants or schools: the #Swedish government relied on the Swedes self-discipline to battle the Covid-19 #pandemic. Most of them supported its decisions and working from home became the norm. But in the end, calls to be responsible and socially distance proved insufficient. Although Sweden's Covid-19 figures are no worse than the European average, the country has reported 10 times more deaths than its Scandinavian neighbours.

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