Text messages, loud political games, and career advice that got rejected. This is how the government opened the borders of the virus.



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One of the first things the most powerful woman at Norway Hospital does on Sunday morning June 22 is send an SMS. The message goes to one of the most powerful industrial lobbies in Norway.

Awake and rested? You can call”asks Bent Høie’s Secretary of State, Anne Grethe Erlandsen.

«Marka m friends. At home I am a tme », Knut E. Sunde responds in Norwegian industry.

He is the man who has received the credit for saving Norwegian industrial companies.

“OKAY. We have a direction and a ministry that work at full speed. I need to know that they are working on something that you can be happy with,” writes the Secretary of State.

A few hours later, the Solberg government grants foreign workers an exemption from the ten-day quarantine.

About four months later, the government dusts the red button that triggered the strictest measures in Norway since the war.

On November 5, Prime Minister Erna Solberg asked people across the country to stay home as long as possible. Norway will be partially closed again. In Oslo, there will be an end point for drinking. Gyms must close.

How do we end up here again?

Behind it is a story about texting, loud political games, and career advice that got rejected.

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