The White House event to celebrate Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination — a gathering that appears to have spread the coronavirus — would have violated the law in Sweden. In Sweden, public events cannot include more than 50 people. If you’ve been following the virus news out of Sweden, this fact may surprise you. Ever since, people in other countries who favor a more lax approach have held up Sweden as a model. Recently, as new cases have surged in other European countries, some of Sweden’s defenders have claimed vindication.

Source: New York Times October 12, 2020 10:30 UTC