If they desire you to live in 15 minute cities, they don’t want you to travel. Travel will once again become a very rare experience for the average human. Costs of travel will continue to increase. Of course, they will never tell us the true reasons why more people are getting sick. They are counting on our slavishness.
Well, I sure hope so, given that I live in one of the ground zeros of mass tourism. It's not pleasant. Sure, spending a few months/years in a foreign country can broaden your horizons, but I fail to see what you can get from spending a couple of days at a certain destination that you couldn't get from reading a book or watching a YouTube video about that destination. The sooner this ends, the better, as far as I am concerned.
Fair point; Bergen (pop. approx. 280K), but most people live outside the city centre--which 'welcomed' 600K mostly cruise visitors in 2019. It's awful to live in such tourism-infested places, and there's absolutely nothing to add but support for Irena's comment!
Yes, but beware of what you wish for. There are ways to reduce this sort of madness and there is the totalitarian way. We can be easily induced to support totalitarianism. This kind of reminds me of the bargain COVID shots offered to people. First they create a problem or a perception of a problem, and then they offer the “solution(s)”. We are too willing to accept the “solution” while not looking at the larger picture of what we are really engendering in the process.
Eh, I don't see anything particularly wrong with the article. Yes, older people (as well as young children) are more likely to get sick than other people, including when traveling. Assuming you don't want to just let sick tourists die (now there's an idea... might do something to fix the touristocalypse that so many cities are dealing with), someone has to pay for their medical care. My preferred solution would be for countries to require travelers to have adequate insurance when entering their country, so that the tax-payers of the destination country don't end up footing the bill.
As for Mr. Haagensen and his (lack of) hobbies: don't know about you, but when I'm legitimately ill, I cannot engage in activities that require a lot of brain power, and that would include reading. Me, I'd just listen to some podcasts with half a brain, which is not too different from watching TV.
They should blame it all on norweigans going to Sweden in their campers, caravans and RVs?
Not that we're complaining about the tourism, far from it as norwegians are a clean and orderly lot, unlike certain other breeds from non-skiing nations I could mention, but putting one up over the swedes, or just blaming us for whatever is a time-honoured tradition.
Just as is our (as in: people from Stockholm's) tendency to view norwegians as "Cousin Country-bumpkin" with more money that is good for them.
All in good fun, most of the time.
A bit more serious:
If the damage done by the virus and the mRNA-jabs is progressive in nature, pretty soon insurance scam companies will claim Force Majeure if and when turbo-cancers et c start becoming too common to cover up.
If they desire you to live in 15 minute cities, they don’t want you to travel. Travel will once again become a very rare experience for the average human. Costs of travel will continue to increase. Of course, they will never tell us the true reasons why more people are getting sick. They are counting on our slavishness.
Well, I sure hope so, given that I live in one of the ground zeros of mass tourism. It's not pleasant. Sure, spending a few months/years in a foreign country can broaden your horizons, but I fail to see what you can get from spending a couple of days at a certain destination that you couldn't get from reading a book or watching a YouTube video about that destination. The sooner this ends, the better, as far as I am concerned.
Fair point; Bergen (pop. approx. 280K), but most people live outside the city centre--which 'welcomed' 600K mostly cruise visitors in 2019. It's awful to live in such tourism-infested places, and there's absolutely nothing to add but support for Irena's comment!
Yes, but beware of what you wish for. There are ways to reduce this sort of madness and there is the totalitarian way. We can be easily induced to support totalitarianism. This kind of reminds me of the bargain COVID shots offered to people. First they create a problem or a perception of a problem, and then they offer the “solution(s)”. We are too willing to accept the “solution” while not looking at the larger picture of what we are really engendering in the process.
Eh, I don't see anything particularly wrong with the article. Yes, older people (as well as young children) are more likely to get sick than other people, including when traveling. Assuming you don't want to just let sick tourists die (now there's an idea... might do something to fix the touristocalypse that so many cities are dealing with), someone has to pay for their medical care. My preferred solution would be for countries to require travelers to have adequate insurance when entering their country, so that the tax-payers of the destination country don't end up footing the bill.
As for Mr. Haagensen and his (lack of) hobbies: don't know about you, but when I'm legitimately ill, I cannot engage in activities that require a lot of brain power, and that would include reading. Me, I'd just listen to some podcasts with half a brain, which is not too different from watching TV.
I thought it interesting because of the massive increase in insurance company payouts.
Other than that, I'm with you on the other points raised.
You may find this article interesting: https://www.usmortality.com/p/age-standardized-fertility-rates
Age-Standardized Fertility Rates for Germany
Thanks for this link, a very interesting read--and kinda in the ballpark with my own reading of the data from last week!
They should blame it all on norweigans going to Sweden in their campers, caravans and RVs?
Not that we're complaining about the tourism, far from it as norwegians are a clean and orderly lot, unlike certain other breeds from non-skiing nations I could mention, but putting one up over the swedes, or just blaming us for whatever is a time-honoured tradition.
Just as is our (as in: people from Stockholm's) tendency to view norwegians as "Cousin Country-bumpkin" with more money that is good for them.
All in good fun, most of the time.
A bit more serious:
If the damage done by the virus and the mRNA-jabs is progressive in nature, pretty soon insurance scam companies will claim Force Majeure if and when turbo-cancers et c start becoming too common to cover up.