An uncontrolled pandemic is also a deathblow to small businesses.<p>It's telling that even Sweden is giving up on the #YOLO approach.<p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-a-holdout-from-covid-19-restrictions-sweden-ends-its-pandemic-experiment-11607261658" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/articles/long-a-holdout-from-covid-19-re...</a><p>> After a late autumn surge in infections led to rising hospitalizations and deaths, the government has abandoned its attempt—unique among Western nations—to combat the pandemic through voluntary measures.<p>> Like other Europeans, Swedes are now heading into the winter facing restrictions ranging from a ban on large gatherings to curbs on alcohol sales and school closures—all aimed at preventing the country’s health system from being swamped by patients and capping what is already among the highest per capita death tolls in the world.<p>> The clampdown, which started last month, put an end to a hands-off approach that had made the Scandinavian nation a prime example in the often heated global debate between opponents and champions of pandemic lockdowns.
> That will include one bill reopening schools in the state, and another one preventing state agencies from revoking licenses for businesses that violated pandemic restrictions unless that agency can prove a business was responsible for COVID-19 transmission<p>Wait...so if someone visits several businesses that are all ignoring pandemic restrictions and gets COVID from one of them, but there is no way to prove which particular one they got it at, all of the businesses get away with ignoring the restrictions?