The Facebook page No to vaccine passes and vaccine pressure has more than 5,000 members. The organizers are now encouraging people across the country to mark their opposition to vaccine pressure and vaccine passes on Saturday 8 January. Stavanger and Tromsø are among the cities that have previously considered introducing corona passports.
Defies the calls
While the infection is increasing and FHI repeats the call for the unvaccinated to take the first dose, 49-year-old Kolås refuses to be vaccinated. Despite a clear speech from NIPH director Camilla Stoltenberg:
– URGENT: Camilla Stoltenberg asks the unvaccinated to think again. Photo: Martin Leigland / TV 2
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– Vaccination protects well against serious illness. I therefore ask those who have so far refused to be vaccinated to think again.
In violation of the law
Kolås runs a bicycle workshop. When he searched for bicycle mechanics and said he only wanted to hire unvaccinated people, the Norwegian Labor Inspection Authority and a legal expert said that it was in violation of the Working Environment Act and several customers boycotted the workshop. After he appeared on TV 2 with his vaccine skepticism he received massive opposition, but also some statements of support. In Norway, just under 300,000, like Kolås, have not taken the coronary vaccine.
Suspected coronary heart disease
The 49-year-old has just been ill and bedridden for almost two weeks with a viral infection and reduced lung capacity. He himself says that clinical findings indicate that it was corona, but he refuses to test himself.
– I do not want to test myself. The test is a billion-dollar store, and the billions should have been invested in intensive care beds and equipment, he believes.
– Opponents of the corona pass demonstrate on Saturday. Photo: Ingvild Gjerdsjø / TV 2
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Evaluating antigen test
Nevertheless, Kolås is now considering taking an antigen test to see if he really had corona and thus has antibodies so he can show his elderly parents who are afraid of infection.
When asked if his own course of illness would not have been considerably milder if he had been vaccinated, Kolås answers:
– It is possible that the vaccine gives a milder course shortly after vaccination, but what I was through is absolutely livable, says the Bergen man who proposes a self-made corona diploma instead of a public corona passport.
The National Institute of Public Health emphasizes the effect of the vaccine:
– For fully vaccinated people who become infected and sick with the coronavirus, most will have a mild course and recover faster than if they were unvaccinated. They also have a much lower risk of becoming seriously ill, says chief physician Sara Watle in FHI.
Cursed at the Prime Minister of France
When Kolås saw France’s Emmanuel Macron state that the prime minister will torment the unvaccinated, Kolås was so cursed that he wrote a post in which he asked the French to respond with the same coin.
On the other hand, he calls Denmark’s strategy a bright spot because the country wants to control, not stop the spread of infection. Lone Simonsen is a professor at Roskilde University, and heads the research center PandemiX Center.
Denmark is focusing on immunity
They say they believe a mixture of infection with omicron and vaccine will make the population better equipped to deal with the virus, even if new mutants appear. Simonsen also points out that the vaccine reduces the risk of serious illness.
– The vaccines still have an effect against serious illness, hospitalizations and death. So therefore we only try to control the spread rate, says Simonsen.
Kolås understands that the Norwegian health service is asking for more people to take vaccines to ease the pressure, but says the most important thing is to strengthen the health service, not give a stab in the arm.
The markings start at Egeertorget in Oslo at 2 pm, in Bergen an hour later at little Lungårdsvann, while skeptics can show up at Torget in Stavanger at 4.30 pm and in Hamar in front of the cinema at 5 pm. The organizers expect several hundred to participate.
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