Someone on Reddit largely debunked this as a (possibly intentionally) bad translation, leading to the 32k upvote thread on /r/worldnews being removed: Original

Someone on Reddit largely debunked this as a (possibly intentionally) bad translation, leading to the 32k upvote thread on /r/worldnews being removed: Original comment, copy pasted below: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fj61zf/norwegian_university_tells_students_in_us_to/fklbz6w/ https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/fj61zf/norwegian... ===== FAKE NEWS! They are talking about "collective infrastructure" which is a poor translation of the norwegian term "kollektivtransport" or "kollektiv infrastruktur". The Norwegian original makes it abundantly clear, as they mention an example of: "where it could be difficult to get to the airport without your own car". > I tråd med rådet fra UD vil jeg som rektor sterkt anbefale alle NTNU-studenter som befinner seg utenfor Norge om å reise hjem. Det gjelder spesielt hvis du oppholder deg i et land med dårlig utbygd helsevesen. Det gjelder også for land med dårlig kollektiv infrastruktur som for eksempel USA der det kan være vanskelig å komme seg til flyplass hvis du ikke har bil. Det samme gjelder hvis du ikke har helseforsikring. Proper translation would be: > In accordance with the advice from the UD, I as a principal strongly urge every NTNU-student that is outside Norway to come home. This especially applies if you are in a country with poorly developed health care. It also applies for countries with poor public transport, like for example the US where it can be difficult to get to an airport without your own car. The same applies if you do not have health insurance. I tried to translalte word by word, rather than getting the grammar correctly, hence the strange wording.