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On Sunday, 200 Norwegians were notified that the corona test they did a few days ago was positive.
Now there are only ten days left until Christmas Eve, and a positive test during this period will mean that it will or will not be for Christmas 2020. Because it means that Christmas Eve will be in total isolation. And for those of us who live alone, this is brutal.
My apartment is small. There is a short distance from the bed to the sofa and the kitchen. I have tried my best to decorate with a Clas Ohlson plastic Christmas tree and Christmas decorations sent by my mother to her home in Trondheim. I also received a Christmas calendar. But it will not be the same.
Christmas must be spent as a family. I have to decorate the Christmas tree with Dad, watch Home Alone for the nineteenth time, eat Christmas porridge, and argue with my brothers when I can’t get the almond in the oatmeal. I have to eat mom’s homemade medister cakes and daddy’s crispy oath.
The idea of the Fjordland Christmas plate alone in my little apartment is appalling.
After being sent to the attic by his mother, Kevin McCallister’s greatest wish was for the family to disappear and for him to celebrate Christmas alone. When he woke up the next day and had the house to himself, he ran out of sheer happiness.
But Kevin’s biggest dream is my worst nightmare.
HAPPY: Kevin McCallister had to fend for himself during Christmas two years in a row. But his biggest dream is the last one that comes to mind. Photo: Landmark Media / Alamy
NRK writes on Monday that the number of tests for covid-19 is decreasing in several places. Health authorities hope that it is not because people fear having to celebrate Christmas Eve in isolation.
Although it can have dire consequences, I believe there are many who are sitting with this fear right now. Why am I really dealing with a Christmas Eve alone, after these nine months? I think a lot of people think “no”.
Because this has been a demanding year for many. Students have missed weeks of sponsorship, parties, and other social gatherings. For the most part, they have been isolated in small dormitories with teaching on Zoom and tests at home.
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For many, Christmas has been the much-needed light at the end of the long-awaited tunnel. But now you can potentially smoke for many. Because it is in my age group, between 20 and 29 years, where the vast majority are infected.
In Oslo alone, this age group represents 285 out of 1,367 new cases of infection in the last two weeks.
If everything goes according to plan, I will go home to my family in Trondheim when this week is over. I haven’t seen my parents in over two months and have only been home three times this year.
READY FOR CHRISTMAS: My little apartment is decorated for Christmas, but this is not where I want to be.
But the last days before departure are harrowing. If I have felt bad earlier this fall, I have felt the anxiety that it may be crown. If I had gotten infected then, there wasn’t much at stake. Now the trip to Trondheim feels like an Olympic final, like the most important event in the world and something that I absolutely cannot miss.
Because there is so much that we have missed this year. Weddings, confirmations, festivals, and birthdays were canceled on the assembly line. Christmas has always meant a lot, but it means a lot more this year.
Therefore, the idea of celebrating Christmas only in the small apartment in which I have spent too much time in recent months is almost impossible to think of.
But I’m going home with a little knot in my stomach. Oslo has been hit hard by the pandemic for many months. Trondheim has done surprisingly well, keeping infection rates low for most of the pandemic.
Do they really want me home?
But it has to go well. Because after a harsh autumn characterized by long afternoons and sometimes lonely nights, I and many others need this Christmas.
