Quote Originally Posted by Yppej View Post
It turns out that while covid is more contagious than the regular flu it is not catchy in the way the Spanish flu was, and the absence of restrictions leads to no worse infection rates than the presence of them:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53741851
"In Sweden, there have been more than 5,500 deaths in a country of 10 million, which is one of the highest death rates relative to population size in Europe, and by far the worst among the Nordic nations."