OT: personal covid preparedness plan

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 21:40:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> You're correct. In the US, though, the CDC says it's okay to 
> meet with other fully vaccinated people inside your house 
> without wearing masks.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Maybe it is until a mutation hits 
us. I think we just have to be mindful about what we say in 
public as it is in human nature to "positively over-interpret" 
viewpoints that validates what we wish to be true.

I think the reasons for why Norway has 139 deaths per million and 
Sweden has 1394 deaths per million to some degree is due to the 
unusual strong words our prime minister used in march last year, 
whereas the Swedish politicians were more mellow and let the 
health professionals take the scene. The formal policies haven't 
been all that different I think, so I think it has something to 
do with what people "want to believe". But now that the elderly 
are getting vaccines I suspect that some younger Norwegians are 
becoming impatient (or are looking for parties, by tradition 
after high school there are big gatherings with "reckless 
behaviour" that many kids look forward to, involving acting out, 
lots of alcohol, and driving around in painted busses loaded with 
mega-speakers and aggregates), after all if granny's got a 
vaccine then there is nothing to worry about? Well, we are about 
to find out... May it is. Exams and a strong 
the-party-of-your-life tradition among youngsters...