Is it safe to travel to Sweden during COVID-19 Corona virus pandemic? <https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-travel-to-Sweden-during-COVID-19-Corona-virus-pandemic> [image: Chris Ebbert] <https://www.quora.com/profile/Chris-Ebbert> Chris Ebbert <https://www.quora.com/profile/Chris-Ebbert>, lives in Sweden Answered Mar 3 <https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-travel-to-Sweden-during-COVID-19-Corona-virus-pandemic/answer/Chris-Ebbert> <https://www.quora.com/#>
Let me put it this way: Wherever there are people, that virus may also exist. But the thing with Sweden is, you can actually move along with such a minimum of human contact, you would be less likely to catch it here than in many other places. Here’s how and why: 1. in many situations where you’d expect to interface with a human, there will only be an app or a website available in Sweden. You can rent a car and arrange for it to be taken out and returned without ever talking to someone in person, and the same is true for hotel bookings, petrol stations, and even supermarkets, if you do your own scanning and checkout, and come in at a time where there’s no one else there. 2. Swedes don’t stand very close to you in public. There are famous pictures on the web showing how Scandinavians queue for a bus - with metres of distance between people. This is not much of an exaggeration. You won’t experience a situation where someone is breathing or coughing right at you, unless you go to a dance club. 3. There’s barely anyone here. Sweden is a place with a very low density of people in it. If you skip the usual tourist spots, like Stockholm, and do a nice little road trip by rental car, staying at pre-booked hotels and avoid the breakfast buffet, there’s almost no chance to catch anything. Ideally, drive on up here from Europe with your own camper van. Here, I took these images today. This is Sundsvall, a city of respectable size, at rush hour today. I don’t think you could catch a virus in that setting if you tried. Just look how empty that is: You could even play it totally safe and either come on up with your own camper van, or rent a car online, as well as a “stuga” (cottage), and just hole up there, in northern Sweden. You’d be safer there than in most other places, I am sure. Unless squirrels and wolves turn out to carry Covid-19, something like this would probably be the safest place in the world to hide from a virus: One thing to consider though: If you come by air plane, your chances of catching it go way up. Because you’ll be breathing the same air as your several hundred fellow passengers, and who knows which one of them has it.
