Nate Silver @NateSilver538
Sweden *is* doing *some* social distancing and they have other advantages (e.g. low # of persons per household). So maybe their R is 1.2 or 1.3 or something. In the short run, an R of 1.2 may not look *that* different from one of, say, 0.8 or 0.9. Both will be fairly flat. — PolitiTweet.org