In the e-book “By means of the Crisis”, the Oslo city councilor describes how exceptionally difficult it has come to be for him to keep a press conference on March 9, 2021:
– For me it was the busiest day of the pandemic, writes the 61-12 months-previous.
Unexpected Death: LO chief Hans Christian Gabrielsen was uncovered lifeless at household on March 9, 2021, the same day Johansen declared new actions in Oslo. Photo: Hans Arne Vedlog / Dagbladet
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He was stepping on to the podium to inform the whole Norwegian community that, irrespective of the Oslo blockade lasting nearly six months, the town council experienced to introduce supplemental steps mainly because coronavirus an infection had been found in the nearby municipality of Nordre Follo.
Shock
The very last variation of the speech was penned, but fifty percent an hour ahead of the push convention, all the things transformed drastically: LO leader Hans Christian Gabrielsen was located lifeless at property in Asker, only 53 several years aged. Gabrielsen was a close buddy of Johansen and the news arrived as a shock.
– When I acquired the large message, we experienced just completed my speech. (…) To the finish of the speech, I was about to difficulty a warning that the hardest months of the pandemic might be in advance of us now, which sadly turned out to be real. But I experienced to start about, writes the Ap politician.
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Johansen now – with a minute’s notice – experienced to discover phrases that could convey the ache and shock, “without the need of my losing the means to convey them myself.”
– I typically chew the formulations, go through them aloud and test them. Operate with the closest persons to make absolutely sure they are seated. I could not do it here. Studying them created me cry, she writes.
Compare with July 22
The situation was so urgent and demanding that Johansen sent all of his personnel out the door as he tried using to get better prior to the crucial push conference.
– But this working day I experienced to talk to to have the business all to myself. I sat there, wholly by itself, wholly silent – with tears in my throat, she writes.
It tightens further
Review the predicament – in which he as a Labor chief experienced to surrender even with an extreme circumstance – with the experiences of July 22, 2011.
– We have recognised discomfort, anger and despair, though at the similar time we have had complicated and comprehensive tasks to clear up, writes Johansen.
The push convention went as planned.
– Retaining the potential to make choices is certainly vital in a disaster circumstance, notes Johansen – who he stated his friend’s demise at the press convention.
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