Prime minister Mette Frederiksen came originally with a positive message in his long press conference. We open slowly and controlled up to the community.
day care centres and small schools can open after easter. BUT all the others still stay closed. Most to the middle of may. All the great gatherings – festivals, markets and league – don preliminary wait with an announcement until august.
It was in truth a diminuitiv opening. Almost microscopic.
The serious message was, however, that the strategy, which the prime minister himself put it, is to be on ‘the green curve’.
It can be discussed whether it is a strategy. But in any case it is now clear that the plan is to keep the number of infected individuals down to a level so that health care can follow. We are far below the green curve in the day. Today there are inlaid 503 at the hospitals, where 139 requires intensive treatment and respiratorhjælp. The total capacity of the hospitals in Denmark are much greater than 1000 respirators.
We are both on the green curve, but at the same time far below.
It is NOT a strategy, told the prime minister, to build flokimunitet in Denmark, as is planned in Sweden. Our plan is to keep your distance, wash your hands and keep gatherings under 10 people “as far as the eye can see,” explained Mette Frederiksen.
the Prime minister said also NOT increased testing, tracing and isolation as a strategy. It is the germans and the south Korea are using.
the Strategy can really be said with very few words: We are WAITING for a vaccine.
Until the vaccine is present, we must set ourselves to have the same restrictions that we live with today – with the small openings, as Serum Institute mathematical models allow.
It is difficult to comprehend the extent of this strategy: We keep the distance, wash hands and are at small gatherings, to a vaccine. However, it appears immediately that the absolute most expensive and the most incalculable of all possible strategies.
The many small businesses, the hairdressers, tatovørerne, fitness institutes and all the clothing stores, is already closed, can now look forward to the many months without work. The whole restaurantionbranchen with the many cafes, pubs and restaurants is out of operation, as far as the eye can see. Travel – the entertainment and the airline industry with the many thousands of returnees, seems to be set on the ground well and thoroughly. The large international Danish companies will in the future go on the edge of the abyss in the next months.
the Press conference, there should have been a light in the darkness, was instead a harbinger of a cold economic summer and possibly the entire 2020.
the Prime minister promised negotiations on several things, but mainly about the economic stimulus, which now all must be extended. The total bill will be astronomical for the Danish society, and the dream of a recovery in the autumn blew away like a leaf in the wind. It is otherwise the forecast, most economists swear by, but as it looks now, we are heading towards the worst case scenario.
The political parties, which are now finally being let into the heat, must take the opportunity to challenge the strategy: ‘the green curve’. It is not sustainable.
We are waiting for the vaccine strategy is for the unsure and the animals.
Michael Dyrby Editor-in-chief, B. T.
Michael Dyrby is editor-in-chief of B. T. He is a former nyhedsdirektør on the TV 2
