Norway Ends Lockdown After 561 Days of “Toughest Measures” in Peacetime
Mass celebrations and street brawls followed Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s lifting of all lockdown measures – including the need to prove your vaccination status – at 4pm on Saturday, having given less than 24 hours’ notice. Despite urging continued vaccine uptake, the PM insisted the country would not implement strict Covid measures “unless they are professionally justified”. MailOnline has the story.
The Prime Minister’s unexpected unlocking kicked off boozy celebrations the following afternoon which lasted late into Saturday night, with an impromptu rave in Stavanger, a mass brawl in Tønsberg and no less [sic] than 50 fights reported to police in Oslo.
Neither vaccination status nor a negative test result was required for any venue, leading to blockbusting queues outside nightclubs and restaurants packed with dinner reservations as people returned to their favourite hangouts in droves.
Queues for the clubs in Trondheim were so long that several people fainted while waiting to get inside.
Police in the city reported a generally good-natured atmosphere, with revellers singing the national anthem in the streets.
In Tønsberg, police were called after a group of around 10 young men started scrapping outside a nightclub near the pier. Fortunately nobody was seriously injured and the police arrested a 20 year-old man.
The chaos on the streets provoked an angry response from some, including nightclub manager Johan Hoeeg Haanes in Oslo, who said the Prime Minister could have given more warning.
“That’s exactly what I predicted would happen,” he told the VG newspaper. “It was a life-threatening situation in the city because they [the Government] didn’t give us at least a few days advance notice. This was a dangerous situation, as police said all places were packed.”
However, others were grateful to be getting back to business despite the challenges for staff.
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I don’t know what to make of this. What are Globocap up to?
Surely Norway hasn’t gone rogue?
Very strange.
Anders must have given his neighbours some helpful advice.
Well, they can deal with Norway the same way they dealt with Sweden.
Step 1: Manufacture some terrible stats from Norway that “demonstrate’ that their approach has been a disaster. Basically create the false narrative that their approach has failed.
Step 2: Give air time to a few local “experts” who show that the population is really begging for the mindless measures implemented elsewhere. So create the false narrative they are really unhappy with their government’s approach.
Step 3: Ignore the place exists and ignore the success of their approach so that people elsewhere can’t find out the information they’ve been fed about the place has been a pack of lies.
As long as this sort of rogue behaviour is confined to seemingly inconsequential and out of the way countries in Scandinavia, they probably think they can deal with it.
Although Norway fell into the trap of excessive Covid measures, its responses have tended to be tempered by emerging evidence much more than most western European nations. So this isn’t so strange.
Having the most sensible country as their neighbour could well have helped, too.
They simply don’t want Sweden to be first.
Let`s see how long it lasts. Am seriously considering buying into a boat escape to get the hell out of this sh** hole (with one or two other local sceptics/deniers) Norway might be a feasible destination from the North East coast. Will they accept tyranny refugees.. Florida too far to paddle.
Ha ha! I could have written your comment word for word!
I worry that this is more behavioural psychology at work. Fear cannot be sustained indefinitely, therefore it is necessary to ease the pressure for a time before ramping it up again.
That is why we are getting a taste of ‘freedom day’. Get everyone used to normal and then when winter arrives we get the ‘choice’ between a return to lockdown or accept the vax passports- which was the aim all along.
It will be impossible to reject the domestic health pass because you are essentially campaigning to go back into lockdown and cancel Christmas. Checkmate.
Classic abuse case psychology – control the narrative so the illusion of choice makes the only palatable option to be the one you wanted all along.
Yep, spot on. Of course what’s it’s going to take is for the majority to mightily push back and reject both! But will that happen?
Oh dear – “unless they are professionally justified”. How many times has that one been there? They’ve never been justified, professionally or otherwise
But I understand you have to be double-jabbed to get in from the UK, unless you quarantine for a NOK500 per night fee for however many days …
Perhaps look a bit syrian and you’ll no longer have to follow migration rules.
Their inalienable rights and freedoms were stolen from them and now they’re “grateful” to have them back? Well, I suppose I’d be grateful if a thief returned my stolen car after 18 months but I’d still want to smack him in the mouth.
“Their inalienable rights and freedoms were stolen from them and now they’re “grateful” to have them back?“
This is how rights become privileges.
3 mosques in Tønsberg coincidentally.
Meanwhile in Lithuania
https://txti.es/covid-pass/images
Lithuania left the USSR yet even Putin’s country doesn’t oppress as much!
Perhaps a Nazi salute to the covid mutaween while you internal passport is checked may help get across what’s happening.
What percentage of Norway is vaccinated? Heard it’s quite high? Is that the reason why they have freedom?
It’s not really freedom if you had to accept being injected with an experimental drug to get what they decide is good enough for you, is it?
“Two in five Norwegians believe corruption taints both the country’s political parties and the industry sector.”
https://www.thelocal.no/20130709/norwegians-wary-of-corrupt-politicians/
It’s baffling isn’t it and a plot hole in the ‘it’s all a Global Coup’ argument. We need to be honest about that. I suppose it was never going to be perfect and while astonishingly successful in convincing country after country to commit hari-kari on the sword of technocracy, maybe it was never going to be perfect – the criminals behind this aren’t superhuman after all…
Norway has not got rid of Covid restrictions:
“25 September at 4 pm entry restrictions for the EEA/Schengen area and purple countries (countries outside the EEA/Schengen area which the Norwegian Institute of Public Health considers to have an acceptable rate of infection) will be lifted. This means that EEA nationals, people from other countries who reside in the EEA, and people residing in the UK and Switzerland may enter Norway.
Entry restrictions will continue to apply for people coming from all other countries (grey countries).”
“travellers arriving from red, dark red, purple (countries which the Norwegian Institute of Public Health considers to have an acceptable infection rate) and grey countries (all other countries) must quarantine. People who are either fully-vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-19 during the past six months are exempt from this requirement. They must be able to document this by means of a verifiable COVID-19 certificate that is connected to the EUDCC gateway.”
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/koronavirus-covid-19/travel-to-norway/id2791503/
If you think Norway has gone free of Covid regulations and rules and forced vaccines, you need to bang your head against the wall and think again.
“Norway will begin to offer COVID-19 vaccines to children aged 12 to 15, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said on Thursday.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-offer-covid-vaccines-children-aged-12-years-older-2021-09-02/
Just as this country is making plans for “vaccine passports”, another draconian measure, Norway is free to go.