# Sweden do-nothing approach good, US/UK/other countries' early do-nothing approach bad. Why?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone
**Tags:** covid-quarantine
**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweden-do-nothing-approach-good-us-uk-other-countries-early-do-nothing-approach-bad-why/850962 "2020-04-03T14:44:16Z")
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### Author: ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweden-do-nothing-approach-good-us-uk-other-countries-early-do-nothing-approach-bad-why/850962/820 "2021-01-14T00:20:18Z")

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> [@SayTwo](#):
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> And here we are with yet more evidence to support the claim that **every country that closed schools got it wrong** , and Sweden got it right.

…nope. The study does **not** support this. The study says **nothing at all** about the countries that **did** close their schools. It only looks at the period between **March and June** in Sweden. It only looks at the children and doesn’t look at anybody who may have gotten Covid **from** the children.

And of course there is this.

> **[Sweden to shut secondary schools for a month to combat second Covid wave](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-covid-schools-closed-lockdown-b1766304.html)**
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> ‘There will be a day when things return to normal, but that day isn’t here yet,’ says prime minister

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