“My son comes first in kindergarten again, a time for fall, when I evaluate that it’s all under control.”
so says the 25-year-old mother Natasha Christensen, who is deeply frustrated that the prime minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday evening announced, how parents next week can send their youngest children left in the institution and the school.
She does not trust the authorities ‘ assessment that it should be the right strategy.
“I do not think it is defensible, that it is our children who must take the lead in an attempt to see the reopening will work,” says Natasha Christensen.
She is herself the mother of two boys, respectively 10 months and four years, and she says that she gets quite angry at the idea that politicians have selected, that it is precisely them, they will test a potentially dangerous strategy of on.
“Our kids are being used as guinea pigs. For if it does not work, close the society down again, and so we are faced with a lot of parents – at least those who have thought themselves to hand over their children – with some perhaps seriously ill children,” says the worried mother, before she continues:
“It’s obviously because you want to build up the herd immunity. I think it is indefensible that Mette Frederiksen puts it, it is our children who must suffer first.”
Why do you rely not on the health authorities when they say that they have assessed the here gradual opening-up as being acceptable?
“I do not, because I am concerned that there is a hidden agenda that children should be guinea pigs.”
Natasha Christensen can in no way understand the rationale in the to start with to re-open the society for the smallest children. According to her, there are many other places where it would make much better sense.
“I think that you should have started with those who need to take the final examination, in order that they can better understand that one should avoid physical contact. It can small children. The cuddling and licking at each other, and there are educators there to cuddle and comfort them. It makes no sense,” says the mother.
She has the past month made sure that her children observed all the precautions, just because the wording to the pressemøderne had been that it was just children in big style could be carrying the virus.
“We get all the time knowing that we must take care of our children. So when we get to know, they are the ones who should be sent out first, it makes no sense. I was angry when I heard it. If the children do not themselves become seriously ill, they become the carriers of the virus, and on the way comes coronaen the to be able to hit for real,” says Natasha Christensen.
Therefore she was Monday evening, a search on Facebook with the headline: ‘I would like to invite all parents to NOT drop off your children in day care and school!’
“I have made the call to tell you, that politicians basically do not have a grip on something. They come with different numbers and say that our children cannot be affected. At least not hard. But our children are not little superheroes,” says Natasha Christensen.
One thing is that you choose to keep your children at home. But why are you doing a call to all parents to do the same?
“Because there are parents out there who trust blindly on the politicians and doing what they are asked to. That, I think, many people forget to be skeptical and think rationally in regards to what their children and they themselves would have the best of.”
And she is not the only one expressing dissatisfaction over the partial reopening of the society. There is on Tuesday created a Facebook group with the name ‘My child is not a guinea pig for covid-19’ with 18,000 members on Tuesday morning, as well as a petition under the same name, which has been shared with 17,000 times, and signed by almost 9,000 people.
Natasha Christensen hope to underskriftindsamlingen rounds so many signatures, that the politicians will reconsider their decision.
“It is important that we as parents in the moment to stand together and speak out, so that they can see, we will not find ourselves in the way we and our children need to be treated now,” says the 25-year-old mother.
At Monday’s news conference told Mette Frederiksen, to nurseries, kindergartens, as well as 0.-5.class in the country’s schools open after easter, the 15. april.
And here the parents of young children a ‘big responsibility’, told the Health director, Søren Brostrøm:
“I must explain to the children why they need to keep distance in the kindergarten or the school. I must have a new structure in everyday life. I am sure you can find out.”
