I keep wondering why they aren't ramping up testing around here.
Kinda shocked Sweden is still not on lockdown, perhaps your leader is trying to be like Trump?
Not really, it's just that here, the government advice remains just that, advice. They're not enforcing much, just recommending. It works with the Swedish population because traditionally people tend to listen to, and trust, the government, but the immigrants have a different background and tend to ignore any so-called authority.
Of course, large gatherings of people are banned - pretty much all public events have been cancelled, cinemas are closed, etc - but self-isolation is not mandatory and restaurants and the like remain open, albeit with limited seating.
On the whole, they claim the approach is working but we have twice the number of deaths per million people when compared with our neighbouring countries, so a lot of us have doubts. There are a number of possible explanations (the lack of testing and a far higher percentage of infected than the official numbers are regularly being suggested) but it's still worrying.
And the fact is that we are not protecting our older population as well as we should. In Gothenburg, the closest major city to where I live, Sweden's second largest, a third of the old people's homes have infections.
Thankfully, the government is not trying to emulate Trump, though.