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Norway to end coronavirus-related restrictions on Saturday

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A comparison of Sweden/Norway's mental health post-opening day vs North America would be interesting.

I'm surprised only 67% of Norwegians are fully vaccinated and expected higher.

That number includes children

Still only 84.6% of adults are fully vaccinated. [1]

[1] https://www.fhi.no/en/id/vaccines/coronavirus-immunisation-p...

I've never been to Norway, but looking at the stats [1], isn't it a little too soon?

Also, from what I understand, in Nordic countries people tend to stay alone. If this is true, is there a lower spread of covid-19 in such countries compared to more extroverted countries?

[1] https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/no

Covid is already endemic. Most of the world already had some variant.

What exactly are we waiting for?

We are waiting for a new variant of covid to be produced, so more booster shots are needed, so the pharmaceutical companies can continue to push for health passes into citizen passes with citizen security scores etc.

It's all going along nicely.

NO and DK locked down harder, had more smart restrictions for longer and tested more than any other country in the world AFAIK. So it is better controlled now and border control is what matters most now.

We don't stay alone "enough" more than other countries for that to matter. The restrictions were just respected better, so they have been way more effective.

I've been told from friends in the UK and Spain, that the restriction were flaunted much more by people than we did and vaccine scepticism has been significantly bigger.

I think they are past their Delta variant wave, and so it actually seems rational at this point as the other variants don't seem to be as virulent - at least not yet.

The US currently has a COVID death / capita rate that is 40x worse than Norway so there will be some debate stateside yet.

Let's all pray that it doesn't come back in force this winter under a new name.

I feel like you are not following the plot. The entire idea now is for covid to come back. Otherwise covid is over and we don't need health passes and subscription vaccinations.

You've lost the plot.

Your comments are irrational, cynical and conspiratorial and have no place here.

I couldn't agree more with this, now dead, comment. Time to pay attention, folks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28658113

what did it say? Your point is unclear.

It speaks for itself -- I won't dictate that for you. Think freely, unbounded by what you're asking me to prescribe.

"think freely" has become nothing but an empty vessel for whatever stupid point you someone wants to make. I'd love to know how many of these people have "Sapere Aude!!" in their social media bio.

Almost all western countries didn't do enough to fight Covid and most of them didn't do a good of experimenting with the best approaches to limit its spread and their communication was often chaotic and incomplete, leading to even deeper mistrust in the institutions. If Norway wouldn't have had a vaccination strategy and they'd be lifting all restrictions I could see your point, but >65% of the population being vaccinated hardly calls for a comparison of an entire nation state with a loud minority that's questioning all science for the opportunity to get to LARP a rebellion against a state that won't kill or torture them. Applause.

>LARP a rebellion against a state that won't kill or torture them

Heh, but does imprison "insurrectionists" without a fair trial who happened to take part in getting a free tour of the Capitol, hosted by none other than the police themselves! "Come right in!", they said.

All the while, the same event leading to the death of an unarmed, non-violent protestor, said to be "far worse than the 9/11 attacks" according to the grand media spin -- the same corporate news networks who praised the 2020 summer of fires, mass theft, and the closure of local small businesses as a result of aimless civil disobedience at the expense of anyone who dare step in their way.

I can keep vending irrefutable facts, but past this point, research on the behalf of a stranger unwilling may cost a little.

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