Denmark stands in a most unusual time, which no doubt will get a fuller description, when future history books need to be edited.
Coronaviruses has led to a historic ‘shutdown’ of the Danish society, the borders are closed, and we stand in front of an economic slap in the face of the kind that leaves marks on the cheek.
Prime minister Mette Frederiksen to albeit not daily, so the minimum weekly take big and difficult decisions that have huge impact on our country’s economy, our public health, and even life and death.
It requires something special of a politician, and when it comes to the courage to take a resolute decision, one must take off his hat for the prime minister.
She acted quickly and firmly, when she 11. march at a press conference announcing the comprehensive decommissioning and sent the children home from schools and institutions, and many of the adults home from their jobs.
It has probably helped to curb the spread of the virus here at home and ensure that we are not ‘getting on the red curve’, as it is called in coronakrisens specific terminology with reference to the horrific scenario, where the number of inpatients at its hospitals exceed the capacity of intensive care units and the number of respirators.
The situation is we are fortunately very far from the present.
When it comes to the subsequent ‘opening’ of the society, as we are faced with having to commence after easter, is the decisions are just as big and just as far-reaching consequences.
Concern for the spread of the disease must be balanced against the human and economic consequences by continuing to run the society on the back burner and, for example, prohibit the hairdressers and people with other professions to carry out their work and families to visit their elderly in nursing homes.
More in connection with the attack, Mette Frederiksen to be too adamant. An accusation, as Frederiksen, however, have taken distance from.
But it is in any case disputable, that the Parliament, other parties and the public first get an insight into the various calculations and scenarios for the contamination on the rear of the tray.
It is also crazy that we get to know that the reopening is justified on medical assessments, when it is only a part of the truth. We now know that the decision to select the most cautious re-opening of the society have also been accompanied by economic assessments. The scenarios are set out in the ministry of Finance – not in the Danish Health and medicines authority.
the Reopening of Denmark is not only a professional maneuver. It is of course deeply political.
we Open at an appropriate pace, or too slowly, as several blue parties believe? The parliament must have the optimal conditions to verify the government’s decisions. Therefore, all knowledge and all calculations to be shared prior to the decisions.
The historical decisions taken in these days, should be followed by an equally historic openness and transparency.
Jonas Kuld Rathje chief Editor
Editor-in-chief of B. T. Graduated from the Journalisthøjskolen in 2001 and the Master in Editorial Management from the UNIVERSITY of southern denmark in 2008. The father of the world’s most beautiful two boys.
