Did we have to sacrifice every drop because the industry didn’t bother to quarantine?

It is allowed to get angry no.

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Then the government opened the country again this summer, there were many actors behind the scenes. The most important were NHO and Norsk Industri, according to a case from Aftenposten on Wednesday.

The government shelved contagion advice so the industry could get migrant workers as quickly as possible. The quarantine obligation was lifted and the tests were voluntary.

National Institute of Public Health. The risk was too high. But the government took a risk and led to many new outbreaks.

This autumn we have our bargains. Many of us have been sent back to headquarters and the holiday celebration has been in jeopardy in various parts of the country. But many business owners are worse off.

The very strict restrictions this fall are cracking down on businesses. The small and large eruptions endangered lives and life’s work.

So it is simply provocative to see how the situation came to be. It’s also provocative to think about the restrictions we could have avoided this fall. How many children had to go to home school this fall due to the opening of the government abroad? How many elderly people in nursing homes have to celebrate Christmas alone, because the industry was in a rush?

The government and the Storting they have created many crisis packages, but above all they have focused on keeping companies afloat. Little was said about putting the wheels in motion, because the goal of the shutdown was to reduce the spread of infection.

Crisis packages should primarily ensure that the wheels are there for later. Then they would start rolling.

A 39 billion exception to this is the oil package approved by the Storting in June.

According to the Aftenposten case on Wednesday, this package led to a contractual party in the industry. And when the industry is going to party, it needs a lot of guest workers.

Thousands of people it was transferred from Poland, Lithuania and many other countries. They brought with them work capacity and infection.

When the government opened the locks, the infection situation was good, in Norway. It wasn’t that great in the countries we collected labor from.

The game of chance did not go so well. A really good party often brings a hangover.

Mayor of Hyllestad Kjell Eide (Labor Party) saw it coming. He says the following to Aftenposten: “We saw from the beginning that this was not safe. But when the higher authorities establish such rules, companies will abide by them. So it is difficult for a municipality to say no.”

Hyllestad is one of many places that have experienced large outbreaks due to imported infections. Outbreaks that could have been prevented if migrant workers had to go through quarantine and testing.

The reopening of Norway it was difficult, and difficult compromises had to be made. Some industries may open earlier than others. The government warned that it would be perceived as unfair.

Industry is very important to Norway, and in crowns and øre it means almost everything.

But industry is not an island in Norway, working on the side of society. Many places are industrial community. The infection in a plant will spread to the rest of society, because the workers live there.

The rules that the government had Norsk Industri and NHO write, eliminating the obligation to quarantine in free time. The government did not take the time to resolve the consequences. They don’t listen to infection control experts. And when the government was informed that the guide violated covid-19 regulations, they changed the regulations.

Infection control was tailored to the need for labor immigration, not the other way around.

The result is higher version of the Hurtigruten case this summer, but where we are all passengers on the ship.

The government supplied too much gas and did it too soon.

But like the Hurtigruten, it wasn’t the crew that failed. The worst that can happen now is that migrant workers are to blame, because the infection came with some of them.

It’s the government and industry that no time was taken for a short quarantine period. After the closure and the crisis, it is understandable that you see arrows pointing upwards.

Hyllestad and many other communities also experienced this. The infection arrows point up. And they weren’t the ones who received $ 39 billion in oil packages that took the hit this fall.

It was hairdressers, shop assistants, teachers and others in many communities who did it. They are allowed to be angry no.