The report from the Corona Commission is more serious than expected, he believes.
– This is a harsh verdict on Erna Solberg’s work with emergency preparedness. We lacked intensive capacity, infection control equipment and good plans, and the report states that we were ill-prepared for the crisis we knew was the most likely, a pandemic, he says.
Støre points out that we in Norway have done quite well. This is due to the Norwegian model of society, high trust in the authorities, a strong public health service that includes everyone, and an organized working life where you do not have to go to work when you are ill, he points out.
– People have lived with unnecessarily stressful measures for a long time
– But the report also documents that the government has failed in handling import infections. The report states that the government had no plan to deal with increasing cross-border infection before the second wave of infections, and that no systems were in place when labor immigration was opened up. This has contributed to high infection and that people have lived with unnecessarily stressful measures for a long time, says Støre.
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