The norwegians I see coming over here in their houses on wheels seem healthy enough. Especially when they go shopping, buying whisky and other spirits by the crate, candy by the bucket and so on.
And to think there used to be smuggling of sugar and flour from Norway to Sweden 50 years ago.
I do think that the time elapsed since the last injection might play a role here: the longer ago one took it, the less 'effective' these seem to be.
Incidentally, as the term started, we have 'quite a few students who are currently sick with Covid', as chatter has it.
I'm typing this while on a speed boat (hurtigbåt): after a record-warm summer, there's a suspiciously high number of coughing and sneezing passengers aboard…
It's always thus: hot summer means people forget that the nights in late August typically drop to below +10C. It's the sam any year spring is early with warm days: people don't dress properly and run about in mid-May wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirts, and get summer colds.
Couple of nights ago I was out hiking - +25 or more during the day, even at 1200 meters. +6 at night. Add people overdoing the bag-in-box, beers and grog and there's your reason for the coughing and sneezing.
I hear you, my fellow Northerer, and while I acknowledge all you said, I'd like to point out that I haven't seen this level of 'summer colds' etc. in the past two years since moving to Norway.
I may be wrong about my perception, but I find it…strange.
Yes, colds for weeks, and while they're seemingly 'o.k.' (in my opinion, mainly because 'a cold is a cold is a cold', i.., this is relatable), I do wonder.
Take, say, my next-door nighbour at work: he's had Covid (two doses so far) this summer, and he told me it was like a severe flu, i.e., all of his family was incapacitated for over a week, and they spent their 'vacation' recovering for 2 weeks.
The norwegians I see coming over here in their houses on wheels seem healthy enough. Especially when they go shopping, buying whisky and other spirits by the crate, candy by the bucket and so on.
And to think there used to be smuggling of sugar and flour from Norway to Sweden 50 years ago.
I do think that the time elapsed since the last injection might play a role here: the longer ago one took it, the less 'effective' these seem to be.
Incidentally, as the term started, we have 'quite a few students who are currently sick with Covid', as chatter has it.
I'm typing this while on a speed boat (hurtigbåt): after a record-warm summer, there's a suspiciously high number of coughing and sneezing passengers aboard…
It's always thus: hot summer means people forget that the nights in late August typically drop to below +10C. It's the sam any year spring is early with warm days: people don't dress properly and run about in mid-May wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirts, and get summer colds.
Couple of nights ago I was out hiking - +25 or more during the day, even at 1200 meters. +6 at night. Add people overdoing the bag-in-box, beers and grog and there's your reason for the coughing and sneezing.
I hear you, my fellow Northerer, and while I acknowledge all you said, I'd like to point out that I haven't seen this level of 'summer colds' etc. in the past two years since moving to Norway.
I may be wrong about my perception, but I find it…strange.
Yes, colds for weeks, and while they're seemingly 'o.k.' (in my opinion, mainly because 'a cold is a cold is a cold', i.., this is relatable), I do wonder.
Take, say, my next-door nighbour at work: he's had Covid (two doses so far) this summer, and he told me it was like a severe flu, i.e., all of his family was incapacitated for over a week, and they spent their 'vacation' recovering for 2 weeks.
This isn't 'normal'.