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Normally we would be welcome (or at least our vacation money), but when it was at its worst, the tones in some places were almost obnoxious. A doctored image of a hunter on a Skåne road sign and the message “Stay in Stockholm, you bastards!” spread on social networks, until it was removed.
Of course, sensible voices were also heard. Of those who cared about the care, of those who preferred to see few visitors to the parish, but still did not like the incitement and us against the mentality.
“I find it horrible that people started thinking that way and that I started thinking that way myself, because I don’t want to be that person,” said a woman who was interviewed on television.
A sensible person who could feel and recognize the less beautiful feelings that the pandemic aroused and still awakens. Memory is short in times like these and now the infection is also hitting Skåne and other parts of the country hard. Of course, as expected. It is a virus, no one escapes, he who is not affected first contracts it later, he cannot hide. Even in our dear neighbor Denmark, about which I wrote earlier, the situation is now much more dire than before. Again: as expected.
Understand me right now, it is not about “who laughs the best laughs last”, something so serious would be foreign to me. I am also half Skåne, my father was from Sösdala, all my childhood shining Skåne, mine lives in the most beautiful corner of my heart.
On the other hand, I hope there will be a moment of self-examination in everyone, certainly not only in Scania, which during the pandemic was selfish, unpleasant and short-term. Mainly because these people, this mentality, represent a danger.
For a society to hold together in times of crisis, we must start at the individual level.
This includes not only the responsibility not to spread the infection, but also not to spread fear and hatred. All animosity between parts of the country, countries, neighbors and friends, weakens us. Now in the middle of the storm but also when we have to get up and recreate the demolished in the form of everything from lost jobs to trust between people. From what we’ve seen during this pandemic, it’s not hard to imagine what would happen if we were forced to face a more deadly, similar Ebola in the future. The violence, the looting, the chaos, the mass exodus and everyone against everyone, only insisted on saving themselves and their own family, the city, the nation.
As we draw lessons from these difficult times for the future, be it wars, disasters or new pandemics, this must be one of the biggest questions: How do we stick together even in times of crisis? How can we better counter fake news, how do we curb hatred and incitement on social media, how do we prevent people from turning against each other? An issue at the highest level, for our leaders and those of the world. But also for you, for me, for everyone. During this time we have also seen many good deeds, many self-sacrificing people who have given their best. We can, if we want to. We just need, like the woman in the television interview, ask ourselves what kind of people we want to be.
