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Want to Escape a Lockdown? Try Sweden

Do you trust millions of your fellow citizens to do the right thing in a pandemic?

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Greta's taken her climate protests online even though Swedish schools are still open.

Greta's taken her climate protests online even though Swedish schools are still open.

Photographer: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is known for showing no mercy to world leaders on carbon emissions. This week, she issued a different kind of call: To stay at home and slow the spread of Covid-19. “Follow the advice from experts and your local authorities... Remember to always take care of each other,” she wrote on Instagram, after she and her father experienced symptoms associated with the new coronavirus disease.

Under her country’s rules, she couldn’t be tested for Covid-19, and she technically doesn’t belong to a group that’s at risk — yet the 17-year-old used her platform to warn young people of the “enormous responsibility” they had in not spreading the disease to others.