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Thank you kind sir. No, it was not the ink orchestras, fireworks and drums of the Brazilian carnival that met with Stockholm’s transit councilor Daniel Helldén when he announced the decision to extend the opening hours of the outdoor cafes that he applied this to an infection-proof press contingent. From, in the so-called normal cases, on October 15 until the year of coronation on October 31. All to promote the expansion of the pub’s guests and that distance can be more easily maintained. For two more weeks.
The Swedish local breed wrecker, of course, wonders why there is a date when outdoor cafes can no longer be active. But if the same wrecker stops a bit, you realize it has to do with snow removal.
November falls not infrequently snow on the ground and then it can be difficult to plow the sidewalks with outdoor cafes. Which would cause a vein to crack in the forehead of the same wreck, then the deficiencies in snow removal will be proof that nothing works in this damn country: Why do we let our old folks die?
Now, army commander Helldén also suggested that outdoor service permits can be extended throughout the year, if the use of shovels or the like can be guaranteed. In addition to the expected protests that are likely to come from all possible and impossible directions, neither interesting nor exciting outdoor cafes throughout the year would be an opening to something new. Or at least old-fashioned.
For the topic of cookouts, just one of several points in the same direction: we must learn to socialize outdoors to a greater extent. If the spread of the infection continues, or even picks up a new momentum, walking outdoors is the only alternative to isolation. If in the long run this is an alternative, even the apostles of the most literal development no longer agree that video socialization is as socially functional a putty as physical meetings.
Then we have to get out. Again, show us how to go out. Even in winter.
Under the modern Sweden’s growth has occurred in two parallel movements: on the one hand, outdoor activities have only increased and lasted for ever longer seasons; Everything that can be labeled “outdoors” or “sports” has become an unmanageable forest of more or less complicated occupations.
More people are walking, in and out of cities by bike, running, skiing and hiking, hiking seems to be on the way to becoming a factor of people’s hygiene, brilliant photos of long-distance skating fill Instagram, rowing it takes place everywhere and on all kinds of floating fabrics, even wild ones. swimming, Jesus Christ, has become a trend. There are more and more open-air gyms and group gyms, and here and there people cling like Japanese macaques to the snow-covered rock walls. Manufacturers of functional clothing probably pack champagne like water.
On the other hand, as soon as it wasn’t about wellness, we crawled inside for the winter. With breaks for quick transports to some other place we can go. Look at pictures of 1950s outdoor games in ice hockey. What type was it? Tens of thousands flocked to the arenas without any other source of heat than alcohol.
It would be normal Hanging in the open air, so to speak, can take place to a greater extent, there are obvious development opportunities for the Swedish manufacturing industry, as well as for cultural life and the hotel industry. New types of pavilions must be built. Smart snow melting roofs. Chairs with heated seat. Feather dresses. Wool briefs. On Christmas Day it opens outdoors and concerts in January. See you outdoors, if you give us permission, of course.
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