'As most of the world either orders or recommends the use of face masks, with even US president Donald Trump seen wearing one, Nordic nations are the remaining holdouts.

In supermarkets, on buses, and along the streets of capitals -- such as Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki and Reykjavik -- face masks are a rare sight, worn only by a small minority, many of who are tourists."

https://news.yahoo.com/no-country-face-masks-nordics-brush-off-mouth-165420447.html

This helps expose the reality that the masks are not making a difference in the epidemiology of the illness - there is no surge of cases associated with lack of mask wearing, and the curve in Sweden wasn't different than the curve for the decline of cases in nearby nations that did enforce lock downs. Higher death tolls in Sweden relative to other Nordic nations were focused in the Stockholm area where demographics, the 5G rollout, and medical treatments given could account for the increased deaths in that area.