Originally Posted by
the810
Judging by the way Stockholm looked when I took a stroll in the early evening, it seems many are not ready for another round of Covid madness. Malls were relatively full and restaurants and bars were packed (and at least bars definitely didn't look like husband and wife's night out kind of situation). Of course, this is purely anecdotal and not very objective (after all, all those that do follow recommendations are invisible), but it's probably not how authorities wanted things go this evening. The reports I got from people in Uppsala are similar.
It seems Swedish authorities are now joining their European counterparts in having a population that is not willing to participate anymore. It doesn't help that restrictions in Uppsala were extended (long before they were meant to end), which sort of undermines Public Health Agency's statements that this is only temporary, for a short period of time.
That's not new in Stockholm nor the rest of Sweden. I saw the same kind of scenes across various parts of Sweden in April, May, June, July, August, September and October, and even more so on weekends just after the most common monthly pay deposits in Swedish employees' accounts. If Sweden had "pandemic fatigue", the country got it early in the second quarter of this year -- close to when the Swedish ski resorts were still open. And the entire time, the "restrictions"were mostly just recommendations when it came to individual persons.
If the objective is to see how some people comply with recommendations while others don't when the "restrictions" hitting people are toothless against the individual persons, then Sweden is a great place this fall/winter to observe that. But it's a poor place to assess how and how fast "pandemic fatigue" hits with enforced restrictions.
If you're fine with blah weather and buy into the concept that "there is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothes for the weather", then you may find southern and south central Sweden works well for pretty easy hikes.