Two self-evident lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr. Halvor Næss
It is now more than three years since the covid-19 pandemic started, and two almost self-evident statements summarize the most important lessons learned.
1. Without the draconian handling of the authorities, the pandemic would have passed under the radar for most people.
2. Negative consequences such as bankruptcies, inflation, lack of schooling, school refusal and depression are solely due to the government's handling of the pandemic and not the Corona virus.
The justification for the first claim is that if the authorities had not shut down and established a test regime with quarantine of healthy people, the mass media had refrained from provoking fear in the population with war headlines and NRK had refrained from listing the number of infected and dead many times a day, most people would not have known that a respiratory pandemic with a new virus was sweeping through the population. Most of us have had Covid both once and twice. Covid causes flu-like symptoms and is a mild illness for most people. We are used to such respiratory infections.
