[ad_1]
In early March, the Oslo City Council, led by school councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV), launched the idea of a new level for the infection situation in schools.
– There is too much difference between the yellow and red level. We must incorporate the best of the red level into the yellow level measurements, says Thorkildsen when he presented the idea on March 4.
-It is an attempt to find solutions to a precarious situation that depresses us, he added.
The color code for the new level of emergency preparedness turned orange and the NIPH was immediately negative at the new level.
Yesterday Dagbladet reported that Thorkildsen is now removing the new level and considers it a bad idea on their part.
– I wanted to reinforce the yellow level at the beginning of March, because the infection control guide was not adapted to the situation with mutated viruses. But it was a bad idea to call this a new level with a new color code, the city council told Dagbladet.
Cancel the orange level: – Bad idea
Was warned
Dagbladet can report today that the Education Agency, which is academically responsible for Oslo schools, warned Thorkildsen of this new level long before the city council launched the idea it has now crafted.
Education Director Marte Gerhardsen wrote in a letter to Thorkildsen that she was “concerned” by the idea.
«We believe that schools will continue to adhere to the traffic light model with levels of green, yellow and red, and we are concerned that we are now moving to a new level (orange) against which we are warning schools this fall.»Writes Utdanningsetatens.
The letter to which Dagbladet has had access is dated February 19, that is to say little more than two weeks before Thorkildsen launched the orange level.
– CONCERNED: Mars Gerhardsen warned Inga Marte Thorkildsen against introducing an orange level in Oslo schools.
see more
Unknown warning
Thorkildsen says he was unaware of Gerhardsen’s warning when he came up with the idea for an orange level.
– I did not know that the agency had recently warned about the introduction of an extra level that they called orange, and thus contributed to the confusion. But there is no drama in this, we agree with the content anyway, Thorkildsen tells Dagbladet.
In early March, he argued that schools needed an “intermediate level” between red and yellow. Thorkildsen claimed that the yellow level, which FHI and the Norwegian Health Directorate have recommended in Oslo for primary and secondary schools, is not adapted to the mutated virus.
Rebellion against controversial school cuts
– Think a bit like Erna
Therefore, Thorkildsen asked the professional department of the municipality to analyze what measures they can take to harden, without reaching the red level, which the health authorities have advised against. She calls it the “orange level”.
– In hindsight, I think a bit like Erna, who “wouldn’t exactly use those words,” something we and the Education Agency completely agreed on, Thorkildsen tells Dagbladet.
Dramatic day in Oslo
– Without sense
Conservatives in Oslo say it is a good thing that the Education Agency has reported that the orange level is unnecessary. But the party wished Thorkildsen had listened to his own union immediately.
– The orange level is empty of content and meaningless, says Mehmet Kaan Inan to Dagbladet.
CRITICAL FOR THORKILDSEN’S ORANGE IDEA: Mehmet Kaan Inan i Høyre. Photo: Lars E vivos Bones / Dagbladet
see more
– This shows that Councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen’s new creative level is nothing more than a new color. She has obviously discovered this on her desk. It shows that the “orange” level has no content, continues Kaan Inan.
– I wish the city council had a better opinion on how schools can handle the pandemic in the classrooms. The truth is that little has been done more than suggesting a new color, adds the conservative politician.
