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Current plan for Norway is to start gradually opening up after Easter: * Opening up kindergartens, physiotherapy, hair salons and allowing cottage holidays fro
by loopz 7y ago
Current plan for Norway is to start gradually opening up after Easter:
* Opening up kindergartens, physiotherapy, hair salons and allowing cottage holidays from 20th April
* Opening schools for 4 youngest classes, After School and some higher education in final years from 27th April
So you go after lowest-hanging fruits gradually, but it's a learning phase and could need rollback if people don't follow restrictions enough to contain contagion. This advice is a mix of political and expert analysis, after observing decline of new cases and deaths, after timely though not early, lockdown.
Norway is a small and nimble country, so could more easily be leading the response in the West. Though a new normal will have to include pandemic response in nearly all aspects of social life. The clustering and stochastic nature of the spread may become somewhat managable, with enough tracking, testing and preparations.
- mattmanser 7y agoDoes anyone know why I've seen various reports that they think opening schools will have a low impact on the virus spread? Kids still get infected, so will spread the disease (and I would assume more than most people being careful) as well as then spread it to their households. Is it because children rarely commute outside a community, so it wouldn't spread between communities, just within communities already infected?
- loopz 7y agoContagion very rarely trace back to kindergarten and schools, kids have much higher chance of mild infections and it is possible low amounts of virus exposure are safer. Not enough evidence so leaders need to lead and experts collect data and analysis, what measures may not contribute enough to justify.
- Marsymars 7y agoI'm going to be pretty miffed if hair salons here are able to reopen before dentists.