Danish prime minister yesterday, 30th March, had a press-conference. She announced that businesses should start making plans for reopening. The plan, for now, is to slowly start reopening society after 13th of April. I will remain skeptical until it actually happens since I got different information from different countries. When quarantine started in Germany, their government said it will last until approximately middle of June. In Italy approximately until the end of July.
But there was one funny, real life news closely related to corona crisis. When it started, in order to prevent/reduce the spread of the virus, Denmark decided to close down its borders. When danish prime minister announced that, I understood there will be no flights in or outside Denmark, no ferry lines going in or out of Denmark and that the police will stop you and ask you to turn around if you try to drive out of Denmark because the borders are closed. Little did I know how far away from the truth I was. When Denmark closed its borders they actually kept them wide open because they are closed. And no, you didn't read this wrong, that is how it is when it comes to closing down the land border.
Three Danish citizens got stuck in Brazil when European countries started putting up quarantines. Somehow they managed to board a plane to Germany. From there they started on their way to Denmark. They wanted at least try and return home, since they knew that the borders were closed. When they reached the border between Germany and Denmark, they were in for a surprise. Nobody was there! Ramps were down but that was it. Since they had no other intentions but to go back home they were looking around and trying to find someone to check them in but, no one was there. They were also looking for any contact number so they could call the police but they couldn't find any either. After some time they gave up, made a video of their little adventure and just walked into the country without anyone noticing. This is how it looked like: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/lokalt/2020-03-27-kaldte-forgaeves-efter-graensevagter-og-endte-med-bare-at-gaa-over-graenserne?fbclid=IwAR06GgUjnJSBhBKVq3qJGGqp-gWnzjg9T2gXMmzs4L3w5adA62v_yuPFutg
After their story and video got into the news, police released the official statement. They basically said that since the lock-down began they decided to withdraw personnel from all border crossings except three, where they are still controlling heavy traffic and any other necessary traffic to and from Germany. All other border crossings are 'closed' and patrolled by one vehicle. After all, when the country closes down its borders and announces it, you would expect that people wouldn't even try to enter since the borders are closed. I must say that I naively thought that closing down the borders always meant that people who try to enter the country are turned away by the police, but little did I know.
I must say that this story came as a welcome comic relief from the whole corona crisis. Finding news that are not related to the corona crisis is next to impossible. It seems that the number of newly infected people started to drop slowly, at least in the last two days. Let us hope it continues that way. Three weeks down, who knows how many more to go - introvert heaven at its finest.
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