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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 9 months ago (4 children)

this is so fucking wild to me, here in sweden we just put up hand sanitizer bottles in stores and plexiglass in front of the cashiers, and told everyone to pwease keep their distance and not use public transport (and then acted surprised when the public transport use decreased)..

[–] CptEnder@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean tbf swedes were already social distancing long before the pandemic...

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

there was a very common joke along the lines of "man i can't wait until the 2-meter social distancing is over, so we can go back to standing 3 meters apart!"

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

All sorts of dumb shit happened in North America. A favourite of mine was people leaving their mail in the mailbox a few days so to ensure the germs died before picking it up?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

My favorite was all the bullshit companies pulled "because covid".

Like "sorry our phone representative wait time is longer, it's because covid". Like what?

Or grocery stores closing all doors except one, thereby forcing all their customers into the same narrow space lol

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some of us were microwaving it 🙄

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which was also dumb because the virus was airborne, not contact based

[–] Snowyday@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

But we didn’t know that for sure at the beginning, chance the precautions

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

A lot of places were still requiring that shit in 2022

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

The Swedish approach was highly politicized here. Showing how it was "all about control".