<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The “borders closed to Swedes” is a joke. There are about a million exceptions, Swedes that work in their neighboring states, members of those states that work in Sweden, etc.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 29, 2020, at 2:04 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 2:11 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Sweden has also adopted very little mask wearing as another non-complying data point.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4"><i>"Fearing the country’s lax approach to combating the coronavirus, Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors </i>(<i>Denmark, Norway and Finland</i>)<i> have all closed their borders to Swedes. </i>[...] <i>While those countries went into strict lockdowns this spring, Sweden famously refused, and now has suffered roughly twice as many infections and five times as many deaths as the other three nations combined"</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/world/europe/sweden-coronavirus-pariah-scandinavia.html">Sweden Tries Out a New Status: Pariah State</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>
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