I HAVE IN THIS SPACE praised the prime minister to act decisively and quickly, since the Covid-19-the seriousness of the crisis finally went up for the Danish health authorities.
Denmark was resolutely shut down, and the danes have a very nice roof ”together-each-for-himself” to an extent, so the flu, there are in 2017/18 cost 1.644 danes, almost disappeared out of sygdomsbilledet.
for THE SAME REASON, spread Covid-19 slower than feared. And currently at a pace, so our health care is not pressed at its full capacity. 504 patients at the time of writing inlaid with Covid-19, in turn, is preliminary to 11,000 planned operations cancelled.
The psychiatric wards are half empty and the doctors in general practice have requested the other types of patients. I’m, unfortunately, is not in doubt that a lot of heart – and cancer patients right now is flying far under the radar, with the risk that their illness is not discovered in time.
It’s going to cost lives.
DIE EVERY DAY from 43 danes of cancer. 179 have died with Covid-19. In the same period, more than 1,000 danes probably died of cancer.
SO EXCUSE ME, if I’m too talkative: It begins to flicker. What exactly is the strategy? We must maintain the isolation and the stillness, until a vaccine is invented, or we manage for herd immunity?
I CAN’T BE the only one who is looking for ready message.
SATURDAY, SAID SWEDISH prime minister Stefan Löfven (he is also a good social democrat) to the Dagens Nyheter, that ”we expect that thousands will die. We can just as well prepare ourselves for it”.
In Denmark, one sits as a regular tv viewer after the prime minister’s visit in 21 on Sunday at the DR left with an impression that we seem to have found another way where you can avoid it in Denmark.
AS I WROTE IN B. T. the 26. march is ”to do everything possible to save a dane it, heroes-the fabric is made of, but risking a human life in order to save Denmark, requires in addition a determination shown by and pragmatism, you can’t require that a man must stand alone with.
But at a time there, taking a calculated risk that Denmark does not remain closed, until a vaccine is invented. Otherwise, the price is simply too high”.
I HAVE LONG passed the point in my life where I need to pass the popularitetsmålingerne.
that’s Why I raise the question: What exactly is the strategy to bring Denmark through the Corona-the crisis?
I WONDER if the DANES are mature enough to get it told straight.
IF IT IS HERD IMMUNITY, which according to experts means that about 50 – 60 % of the population to be infected, it is about – pardon the cynicism – to let the disease spread at a pace where the capacity of the health system can follow. It goes too strongly, breaks the healthcare system together and people who could be saved are going to die.
it Goes too slow, we draw the agony unnecessarily, and the price becomes extremely high. Whether you measure it in the human deprivation or dry numbers. The last is often hated, but please remember, that although dry figures are not – dry. An unnecessary major setback in the economy is also a matter of life and death: F. ex. worse cancer care than we could otherwise provide, or mass unemployment, which creates human tragedies.
RIGHT NOW is LEFT with the impression that a good solid public finances can hold your hand during it all. I am, of course, that changing governments ‘ reforms, which many otherwise have hated, is now highlighted as a strength.
But also, it has its limit. When you lead the fixed exchange rate policy outside the euro hit at a time is also a lånegrænse, if the interest is to be kept in the ro. So, yes, stimulus packages are good.
And we should have more of them. About a week – the 13. april – expiring on the first to the travel industry. It should clearly be extended, for at the time, the world is still closed. And the ceiling of 60 million per. business needs to be burst – now!
Otherwise a number of large, Danish companies can simply go bust, just for a little bit.
But this is all treating the symptoms. We need a reopening of Denmark, which goes right to the capacity limits of our healthcare system. Do not over – not under. So the infection can spread at a pace where we are building the herd immunity without having to have smashed our economy.
If it then is it, that is the strategy. Say it loud, if it is such. Otherwise the prime minister explain something else.
In an open democracy we claim to know the truth.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, member of parliament for the Left and former prime minister
