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Do you have a source on your claim that Swedes have changed their behavior?

Yes I do. For example, this is an article from the company that owns all of Swedens large airports saying traffic fell by 87%. https://www.swedavia.com/visby/press/swedavias-traffic-stati...

Here you can see that in september 2020 road traffic accidents fell sharply from the september average of the previous years.

https://www.ssb.no/en/vtu

You claimed that we did that in response to being scared by “the disastrous herd immunity strategy”. Week by week data (reported on in the weekly reports here: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-st...) shows that it happened as soon as restrictions were announced though, so that doesn’t actually support your thesis.

Certainly not conclusive proof, but Google Mobility data shows Swedes are using public transport -28% compared to pre-pandemic levels: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-10-18_SE_Mobil...

This is a stronger effect than in many other countries with official measures in place, e.g. Germany has -21% and was at -8% before case numbers started spiking again a few weeks ago.

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