Measures more stressful than pandemic

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I’m eit Post in Aftenposten 47 mayors, infection control doctors and community doctors reach a general compromise with the health authorities’ Corona strategy.

“The corona spaghetti has become unbearable,” wrote lead author and chief medical officer of the Sunnfjord, Øystein Furnes.

He believes that the government does not sufficiently take into account that people will live with the epidemic for a long time, and that vaccination coverage is “very well”.

The post was written after the government presented it New national measures Where this was entered between the other counters and a midnight stop was introduced.

The government takes the following measures:

Distance and social contact

Everyone should maintain a distance of one meter from non-family members and similarly close distance.
The recommendation does not apply to children in kindergarten and primary school. There are also exceptions for adults who work with services for children, youth, and vulnerable groups.
You should have no more than 10 guests in the house in addition to your family. You can have up to 20 guests at once during the Christmas and New Year holidays, but there must be a meter distance between guests. Everyone should think about how many close contacts they saw in total.
Children in kindergarten and primary schools can receive visits from their groups/classes/departments even if they exceed the recommended number of guests.
Reduce the number of close contacts, but do not isolate yourself.
Meet others outdoors whenever possible.

Organized Leisure Activities

Recreational activities should be practiced outdoors as much as possible, and changing rooms should be kept closed.
For recreational activities organized indoors, it is recommended that adults over 20 years of age be in groups of up to 20 people. Furthermore, it is recommended that adults keep a distance indoors where the activity can be practiced, and that you maintain a distance of 2 meters during high intensity training.
There is no specific recommendation about distance and number when children and young people under the age of 20 train and participate in sports, cultural and recreational activities.
The best sports can be practiced as usual.

Schools, Kindergartens and SFO

Regular testing in schools with high infection pressure.
If necessary, the municipalities will again use the traffic light model in schools and kindergartens. The starting point is the green level, unless decided otherwise locally.
Children’s meetings in kindergarten or primary school can be arranged with whole classes / departments / groups with the required number of adults present.
Universities, colleges, and professional colleges as soon as possible should offer hands-on teaching in smaller groups and more digital teaching. Students who rely on laboratory experimentation or skills training should give priority to physical education.
Universities, colleges and vocational institutes should facilitate compulsory examinations and courses, whether digital or physical, where good infection control is feasible. The same applies to other educational institutions for adults.

practical life

Recommend 1 meter distance and increased home office use.
Recommending face masks if it is not possible to maintain a distance, unless physical barriers such as the use of barriers or the like are used.
Home offices and face masks do not apply to services as this prevents employees from performing necessary and legal tasks in meetings with vulnerable groups, children and youth.

ventilation

Good ventilation/ventilation is recommended in situations where you stay in the same room over time with people who are not members of the home and are similarly close.

Organized Measures:

Events and gatherings

Maximum 20 people in a private gathering in a public place, in borrowed or rented spaces
Memorial services after funerals and burials can accommodate a maximum of 50 people. The funeral itself is a public event with fixed seating, see below.
3 groups of 200 people with a distance of 2 meters between groups at all times in public events with fixed custom seats.
Maximum 50 people at public events without fixed designated seating.
In internal events, an organizer should be appointed who has an overview of attendance and the implementation should be professionally sound.
Casting stops at 24:00 on events with a casting licence.
The organizer must ensure that everyone present at indoor events must be able to maintain a distance of at least one meter to others who are not in the same home or similarly close. There are exceptions for several groups, for example for athletes in cultural and sports events, participants in certain courses and those who are in the same group in kindergarten or primary school.
In events in which each member of the audience is seated in fixed designated seats, there shall be sufficient space if the organizer facilitates that the audience have at least one vacant seat among themselves in the same row of seats from the time they arrive at the event. People from the same house can sit close to each other after arrival.

Restaurants

Ask the restaurant to make sure everyone can maintain a distance of one meter for non-family members as well as nearby. There should be at least 1 meter of space between the seats when guests arrive, but so that people in or near the same house can sit close to each other.
Restaurants with a liquor license must have seating for all guests, but it is not a requirement for cultural events in the restaurant.
Alcohol can only be served at the tables.
Casting stopped at 24:00.
The restaurant must record the contact information of the guests who agree to it.
The process responsible for fighting infection
Assign infection control to the proper operation of kindergartens, schools and other educational and training activities. The municipalities will again use the traffic light model. Business level is green unless otherwise decided locally. It may be appropriate to reclassify all kindergartens and schools in the country back to the yellow level.
The following businesses must be run in a proper and professional manner to be open: libraries, amusement parks, swimming pools, water parks, spa facilities, hotel pools, gymnasiums, bingo halls, game halls, shopping malls, shops, trade fairs, temporary markets and the like.
This entails requirements to ensure that it is possible to keep a distance of at least 1 meter from people who are not in or near the same home, and that the company has developed procedures for good hygiene, good cleaning and ventilation.
With the exception of bookstores, shops and malls, companies must record the contact information of those guests who consent to it.
Industry supervisors should be reintroduced eg gyms and swimming pools.

mouthpiece

It is mandatory to use face masks when it is not possible to keep a distance of at least one meter in shops, shopping malls, restaurants, public transport, taxis and indoor station areas. The same applies to employees unless physical barriers are used.
Oral pending orders also apply to hairdressers, dermatologists and other individual businesses.
There is already a national recommendation to wear a face mask as there are a lot of people and it is difficult to keep a distance, for example when you are picking up your jacket after an event at the same time as many other people or on your way out of the football field.

home office

An order for the employer to facilitate a home office wherever possible without compromising on services that require an important and necessary presence to work, for example to care for children and vulnerable groups.
agricultural quarantine
The obligation to quarantine close contacts with confirmed infection where omicron is suspected, extends also to other close contacts, not just family members and similarly close people.

These measures come into effect at midnight on Thursday, December 9 and will last for four weeks. The procedures will be reviewed within two weeks.

It is not the epidemic that hit us. Those are the procedures, Fornes tells NRK.

He points out that the stress has a significant burden on operations, not least with respect to sick leave.

sharpening

Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store (Labour) announced that new measures might be introduced, and that a new assessment would be made just before Christmas.

the reason is Increasing incidence in the population Uncertainty about omikron variable.

What Furness fears most now are more lockdowns and new rounds of infection tracing. It would be especially difficult to enter the pandemic for two years, he says, as “everyone who deals with it is very tired.”

– Are you afraid to collapse?

– Yes, I am very worried about that.

Poor planning

The mayor believes the massive shutdown is mainly due to a lack of extensive capacity and poor planning over time.

Furness claims health authorities shouldn’t be surprised by the increase in infections and new mutations, then It will reopen earlier this fall.

he is writing:

“We must begin a normal social life, and there is not much we can do to reduce the risks of the epidemic.”

– It does not have our clear communication and planning in peacetime. The city has strong voices in a state of war.

Get support

The mayor of Hammerfest is one of the many doctors behind the article’s content.

Sonni Schumacher now describes the day when many residents feel “a fear of infection”.

At the same time, she emphasized that COVID-19 is not the most stressful at the moment, as about 90 percent of the adult population has been vaccinated.

The main problem is that a quarter of infections “require a disproportionate amount of resources”.

New procedures contribute to increasing this burden on municipalities.

Measures that municipalities should implement during a pandemic include vaccination, testing, infection tracing, use of infection control equipment, and information delivery to residents.

Askøy Mayor Kristin Kota Schoenberg believes it is time to start a discussion about how residents should live with coronavirus, one of many respiratory viruses.

It tests that people are now pretty much weary and tired of the various measures.

– We are vaccinating continuously in the municipalities now, so that more and more people get protection against serious diseases and death.

I understand the frustration

The Minister for Health and Care Services, Engfield Kjerkul (Labour), says she is “well aware that many are tired of infection control measures and restrictions”.

The government is concerned about being open about managing the epidemic and welcomes the discussion.

She points out that municipalities have been and continue to have our first line during the entire pandemic, and that the goal is to give municipalities leadership in a confusing situation.

When asked if she would listen to the doctors, she replied:

The government relies to a large extent on professional advice from the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, but we are responsive to all good input.