Yes, kind of. The Swedish government are getting closer to the measures that many other countries did a long time ago. The latest change is that night clubs are not allowed to be open after 22.00. Also, limitations during the christmas holidays.
Do not underestimate this one. Sweden is a very large country and the population is spread out all over it. This together with the Swedish culture where people where socially distancing themselves even before COVID19 was a reality, plays in Swedens favor. Despite this, they still have worse numbers than Switzerland. That is worrying indeed.
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I was in Zurich today and you can tell me what you want but freaking Bahnhofstrasse was soo crowded with people you couldnât think there was anything going on besides some queues outside of the stores. I feel like that social distancing and lockdown scares even drive more people outside to the streets whenever itâs a nice sunny day.
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I was there, too 
just walking by, but my gf stayed for longer and then she could not shut up about how many people were there.
By the way, I am mostly puzzled by people lining up to enter shops like Moncler, Gucci or LV. Like, who are these people? If they are poorer than me, then they are suckers for buying stuff from such expensive brands. And they canât be richer, because they would not be wasting their precious time waiting outside of the shop to be let in.
By the way, my mom has had a fever (38-ish) for TWO weeks and she also cannot sleep. This &% virusâŠ
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Just look at the statistics published by the federal government for the âReinvermögen (Aktiven abzĂŒglich Passiven, vor BerĂŒcksichtigung der SozialabzĂŒge)â.
About 25% of people have a declared taxable net worth of zero (or less).
About a third of people have 50k or less.
Statistically, half of that cue was either in debt or had saved only a couple thousand francs.
And if you saved >500k you already belong to the richest 10% of the country. To me, this is very impressive. How little people have, in a country as rich as this. And how little they seem to care.
Two weeks?! Damn.
My best wishes for a speedy recovery!
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There is a strong difference with the French-speaking part again (now that the virus is in full fury here). I was just passing by in Fribourg yesterday and the streets were mostly empty.
I am thinking that once the situation gets better in the French-speaking part, it will start to hit the German-speaking part, and we will play a big ping-pong game with measuresâŠ
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I just read a report that in Bern there has been an influx of french-speaking customers in bars and restaurants.
This seems like quite a bad unintended consequence of shutting down restaurants in just one region/canton of Switzerland.
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Thatâs a good point. And many people from Geneva are going to Vaud for shopping since they closed most shops in Geneva. And I know people that are now planning vacations in German-speaking part because hotels and restaurants are still open.
This is quite dumb and will definitely not help in the long-term.
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Basel is shutting down bars and restaurants for 3 weeks from tomorrow on too.
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The design, the quality, the brand appeal ⊠they probably like it?!
Just as you like Porsche frames for your glasses or 200CHF-a-night hotel rooms (Iâve slept for much less in clean well-kept rooms in places such as central London or Toronto). Which brings us to⊠with the current COVID situation, many people likely have deferred or canceled their holidays abroad - so they have excess money to spend domestically on some luxury item they might have always wanted.
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These are not products for the rich. They are for the poor who want to feel rich.
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Those statistics use the tax value of assets. In my case, this is only ~2/3 of the market value in total.
Thatâs not how statistics work. You canât say automatically that expensive shopgoers are like the average society.
Itâs quite different to buy glasses for 300 chf or a book a hotel for 100 (200 shared between 2 people) and to buy an LV bag for 5000 chf.
I feel itâs like that, too. Thatâs why it feels funny to look at 20 people standing outside in line, like it used to be in communist Poland, only here they want to check out some 1000 chf shoes or sweaterâŠ
Unless I have further data on luxury shoppers (which I donât) then I will of course make a simplifying assumption and treat them as average society. Thatâs exactly how statistics work.
You having a bad day? 
Not really, I just donât get your point. I basically asked: âI wonder what kind of people go to these shopsâ and you said âjust look at the overall population statisticsâ. I think itâs a pretty weak assumption to believe that luxury shopgoers are a perfectly random sample of the whole society.
Anyway, I donât see a problem for someone to splurge on luxury if he can afford it. I only start to scratch my head when you have to wait 30 minutes in cold outside the shop just to get in. Itâs not like they need this expensive piece of apparel right now
And yet this should be the starting point of the investigation, that you could do using Bayes theorem.
Here is the hypothesis to test (letâs call it H) is âIs the kind of person waiting in line in front of Louis Vuitton more likely to be a rich person?â.
For the sake of the argument, letâs say that being rich is having a net worth of more than 1 million.
Without knowing anything about the person, the Vermögen tables tell you that the probability that a given person is rich is 15.43%, which translates into odds of 0.18.
Now you have an evidence (letâs call it E), i.e âI have seen this person wating in front of Louis Vuittonâ. What does this evidence tells you? How can you update the odds?
- Well, letâs say that if the person is poor, she has a 10% chance of going to Louis Vuitton (she has to save the money after all, which does not happen that often)
- if this person is rich, there is a 30% chance that she will go to LV. (She can afford it, but maybe she thinks that she has better use for her money).
Then using Bayes theorem, the updated odds are:
New odds = Old odds * (30%/10%) = 0.54 , which means a probability of only 35%.
That means that the LV-goer is still likely to not be a rich person.
If you do not like formulas and are more of a visual person, this video from Julia Galef is fantastic and explains the concept much better than me:
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The sad thing is that it only refers to Basel-Stadt and that Baselland has not followed⊠wtf 
Yeah not the first time they are not synced⊠(but then, not all the other cantons are either)
When friends went to IKEA in Pratteln couple of weeks back, seeing no one wearing a mask made them turn around instantly. 
As others have said - there might be âgourmet migrationâ happening these days between cantons.
For sure - experienced it myself too.
Hopefully BL will follow shortly, otherwise considering the size of BS (vs. BL) it really makes little senseâŠ
I wonder why the numbers are falling that fast without a lockdown.