It's so weird watching the world's reaction to covid while living in Sweden (I'm originally from the US, but moved to Sweden 7 years ago). Sweden responded completely different than the rest of the world.
- Schools were never closed (except for high schools and colleges back when this started, but all of them are open again now). All the younger kids still went to school as normal.
- We are encouraged NOT to wear masks here because they "give a false sense of security", so people are less careful with social distancing and such. Not to mention most people wear them incorrectly and constantly touch their face to adjust their mask, which contaminates you anyway.
- Those who can work from home are encouraged to do so, but schools are open as usual. (And those of us with jobs we can't do from home must still go to work as usual. So basically, nothing has changed for me at all whatsoever during this entire pandemic.)
- Anyone with ANY symptoms of covid are told to stay home and off of public transportation, but they are just trusting that everyone will be responsible and do this on their own. I have to commute a total of 3 hours per day on public transportation to get to and from work and while it does seem that MOST sick people are staying off as they should, there are still people here and there coughing on trains and buses and it makes me soooo mad! Also, I really dislike having to ride public transportation with all these children everywhere going to and from school! They pack the buses and there is no way to get away from them. >.< I live very far out in the country where there are very few buses, so I cannot just simply "wait for the next bus" if it is too crowded (which is what they tell us to do here). It can be hours until the next bus.
I feel like some places over-reacted and Sweden kind of under-reacted. I have issues with both plans of attack, though. No one knows what the best tactic is or who will be "right" in the end, but it's just crazy seeing how differently everyone is reacting outside of Sweden.
For example:
I had to cover for a co-worker of mine this past week who was sick with a sore throat, cough, and nausea. Those are all covid symptoms, so when she said she felt good enough to return to work on Friday even though she still had a slight cough, I asked my boss if she should be tested for covid first since she had some of the symptoms. I was told that they only test severe cases now and since she didn't have a fever, it is just a regular cold. Hmm...yeah. Ok? I'm pretty sure this is not how this situation would be handled back in the US... Also, no the coworker was not wearing a mask on Friday. Like I said above, it is seen as "odd" to wear a mask over here. So anyway, if she does/did have covid...I have been exposed and so have all of our/her clients now. How is this ok?
Sorry for rambling. I doubt anyone will read all that anyway, and I sure hope my boss doesn't!
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I used his name the first time I logged into a MLP chatroom like 21 years ago (at Dream Valley, when it was still open). I just wanted help finding out the names of some ponies I had gotten from some friends, and Teddy was the first name that popped into my head to use to log-in. Anyway, I have kept the name all these years on all MLP forums and such. 
(This lead to alot of confusion in the early years that I was a guy, though. lol!)
