Please, Erna! I will do it on summer vacation – VG

For the government, travel abroad is not recommended until August 20. Erna Solberg recommended us at today’s press conference instead of going to Bergen.

And that’s fine there, that’s it.

But not everyone dreams of splashing around in a live umbrella drink in midsummer. And how much does a beer cost in Bryggen? I read somewhere that a seafood platter costs $ 600.

Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide was also present at the same press conference. She said how much control she has for the Foreign Ministry that they must constantly help Norwegians travel abroad.

But it is not that we intend to go to Sweden. Honestly. We don’t want the vicious virus.

We want to go to Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and other countries where the spread of the infection is as low or lower than in Norway. Ah, think of Santorini!

In Taiwan, there is so little crown that those who go there should almost count positively on Public Health models.

And the Baltic countries have opened the first European travel bubble now. There are no longer closed limits in between. It doesn’t make sense when the infection situation is similar.

And public health agrees. In their latest risk report, they write that these measures will be “less relevant to travel to countries where the epidemiological situation is comparable to the situation in Norway”

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To follow government logic, Finnish brands are also better off staying away from Oslo this summer. Since there are a handful of infected in the north. While Oslo has many more.

And this is how many municipalities have thought. But the “quarantine” liked the government very much.

Now Solberg quarantines all of us. And the problem for the government is that they don’t know how many are infected in all the summer countries we want to go to.

Therefore, in its latest risk report, published on May 5, FHI also recommended keeping the travel advice a little longer, but added that “Norway should cooperate with the Nordic countries and the EU countries to remove the restrictions Travel”.

When Solberg says August 20, the overseas vacation is sinking. At least for those who want to plan.

There may be government vacancies for travel to the Nordic countries starting June 15, and to other nearby European countries starting July 20.

Therefore, it can be a tourist tour for those who are lucky. You can almost suspect that “Everything for Norway” -Trygve Slagsvold Vedum has a finger in this game. Biri and Brummundal are and continue to be the best.

But keeping Norway closed has many challenges. When public health experts believe the limits should be open, the pandemic is supposed to have entered a phase of much domestic spread. Because stages 2 to 3 travel abroad and import infection don’t matter, it’s just “bad” domestically.

But the stringent measures we introduced in March have delayed us in the beginning. Then the infection import becomes important again. This is the difficulty of the “shoot down” strategy, and something we see in many of the countries trying to remove the crown.

Erna Solberg’s disappointing summer vacation news arrives at the same time as FHI’s new modeling report trying to figure out how this will progress.

There, FHI estimates that on June 4 there will be 92 infected across Norway.

I think the Finnmarks can safely come south, at least. But the border passes through Lindesnes.

It probably would not have been more dangerous to go to Denmark.

I guess travel tips will be liberalized before fall comes. When Denmark opens, we will probably find out.

However, we should not be tempted to think of those paths.

When Norway is still closed, both with entry quarantine and with travel tips, I also think the symbol effect is included in the calculation.

The idea is that the closer we get to normal, the weaker we become.

It is the same as the closing of the school. Perhaps it was not in itself important for the spread of the infection. But he sent a strong message about the seriousness of this.

And if we are allowed to cross borders and go on long trips, it is done quickly to relax a little more. Sinks and umbrella drinks go hand in hand. Everything seems more normal. We become less scared.

Then the crown can counterattack. And it can take terrible revenge. Just because we overlooked it for a few weeks.