Skype-based relationships? No hugging? For Swedes, that’s not social distancing. That’s just life.
Many Swedes have been amazed to read about French families struggling with adapting to working from home and trying to create detailed hour-by-hour schedules just to get through the day without going insane .
That’s just a normal weekend to us Swedes, notoriously driven by what we call a “little Luther” stuck on our shoulders practically from birth, urging us to work harder and with discipline and poking us with a red-hot stick of guilty conscience if we, God forbid, take unnecessary breaks or treat ourselves.
The U.S. media has enthusiastically suggested silver linings to the new confinement rules like: “You can Skype your grandparents!” To a Swede, that’s already obvious. How else would you interact with them? We put our elderly away in retirement homes no matter if grandma and grandpa are sick or sprightly — they’re old, so can’t contribute to society anymore. Little Luther demands it.Equally puzzling are reports of Italian youths sneaking out at midnight to meet in local parks.
In Sweden, young people are glued to their smartphones 24/7 and their important relationships — even their first dates — play out behind decidedly coronavirus-safe screens.
There, a national mantra as fine as the British “Keep Calm and Carry On.” Just slightly more depressing.
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