The coronavirus situation in Sweden came with a backlog for mail/packages to be processed by Swedish customs. That, foreign slowdowns in postal services also has been a factor in why mail/packages sent to Sweden have been rather slow. Online shopping boom was a factor.
Originally Posted by
oliver2002
Alternatively parents are reporting their kids to be sick to avoid going to school...?
Seriously though, about two weeks ago nearly every kid in our kids friend circle had some kind of summer viral fever/flu (light fever for a few days, running nose, sore thoat) that spread like wild fire (in spite of hand washing, masks and nearly no shoulder rubbing). Everyone ran to get a covid19 test done and all tested negative. So it could very well be that infection. Seeing how quickly that viral fever spread amongst the kids my hopes of any containment of Covid19 once schools reopen has faded quickly.
The state-supporting propaganda says that the higher rate of Swedish kids being reported as sick from schools in parts this month is due to people adhering to guidelines to not show up to school if having even the slightest of symptoms that may relate to Covid-19, and that we should expect this. What that kind of response fails to consider is that there were no reports of the proportion of (open school) classes absent for reported sickness being this high (or higher) during the March-June school period.
My conclusion too is something like yours: that the idea of open schools being able to contain SARS-COV2 is a pipe dream.