There is more light during the day, and the Danes are no longer afraid of the pandemic.
Spring for victors?
Although the Omicron virus is everywhere right now, it seems that hospitals are handling the rise of patients. The general consensus is that in a month or two we will be back to almost normal, though with fewer hugs and handshakes.
We will all get viruses from time to time, but vaccinations and herd immunity will reduce the corona to the level of a pre-pandemic flu. An annual sting or a few days in bed, but no big jump in mortality.
However, this is the Danish forecast. Globally, while panic restrictions will reduce our appetite for travel, we must continue to support efforts to vaccinate or risk another mutation. The Greek alphabet has many unused letters.
Spring for changers?
A political spring is also at stake thanks to an admission from Radiale leader Sofie Carsten Nielsen that she will not again support a one-party government, red or blue!
While that does not mean her party will stop supporting the Prime Minister’s Social Democratic government today, her statement will give hope to the blue bloc less than two years before the next general election.
Expect the government to respond to Nielsen’s announcement, giving her the opportunity to support a government containing the Conservatives and the Socialist People’s Party, or the Left and the Social Democrats.
The Prime Minister may well go back on his New Year’s pledge to reform the welfare of the elderly if it maintains the current red bloc majority. In addition, her plans would require an awful lot of non-EU workers, who would be met by opposition from the unions, the traditional power base in the PM’s party.
We will see it before we believe it.
Spring for issuers?
The Prime Minister has meanwhile also announced a new tax on CO2 emissions, but how exactly this will be expressed is still unknown. No doubt it will affect everyone and therefore everyone will do their best to avoid it and let it get heavy on someone else.
The broadcaster pays, she said, but we all deduce. If the industry has to pay, it will mean a huge loss of jobs; if consumers have to pay, it means yellow vests.
Pursuing politics in the spring will make it feel warmer than global warming, so legislation will likely be postponed until after the election.
Spring for glitter!
The same cannot be done with Her Majesty’s 50th anniversary as regent.
More popular than ever, we must not postpone the celebration.
There are lights in the tunnel – and this time it’s not an oncoming train.
Source: The Nordic Page