Fampo 06.06.23
The following article is written by Pål Steigan and was punlished in Norwegian at the website Steigan.no on 04.06.23. We present an English translation with the author’s permission.
The Corona Commission has presented yet another report, and as expected it is a whitewash of the government, the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Health and Welfare. The commission has admitted that those responsible have broken the Constitution and other Norwegian laws, but this is accepted among friends in Norway.
Bjørn Guldvog, who committed an illegal coup when he usurped an authority that only the government has according to the Constitution, when he closed Norway on 12 March 2020, says he has destroyed his notes from that time.
One more time: An experienced civil servant, who is trained and drilled in the importance of documenting all decisions and the preparations for decisions, carries out actions that are unique in the history of the Norwegian rule of law, and says that he has destroyed the loose papers on which he made notes!
- Papers piled up, and I had difficulty sorting the various papers from each other. At one point I probably threw away too much of my own papers. I didn’t have folders and books at the time that I used, says Guldvog.
If nothing else, this is gross misunderstanding in the service and should have led to dismissal. But it’s worse than that. This is about deliberate destruction of evidence.
Got “help” from China
Fortunately, there are others who have taken care of documents from the critical days of 2020.
Eva Alnes Holte wrote in Utrop magazine on 21 April 2020 that Chinese-Norwegian associations were in active contact with Health Director Guldvog to give him advice.
We quote from her article:
The alarm went off with Chinese-Norwegian associations after a meeting with the health authorities on 25 February: Norway did not seem to take the corona threat seriously. Then intensive work began to warn and give advice. Director of Health Bjørn Guldvog became personally involved. On March 12, the government reversed. Here, the internal drama of the days that changed Norway is revealed.
“Hey, Oliver! Thank you very much for the ratings and the offer. We take the situation very seriously, and need all good knowledge to find the best solutions. I will investigate with our professional environment and report back to you during the morning.””
This is how health director Bjørn Guldvog’s direct message to Oliver Soon, president of the Norwegian Chinese Friendship Association (NKV), sounded on the morning of Sunday 1 March. This was a response to Soon’s SMS to the director of health at 08:54 on Sunday morning. Soon then offered to put together a “team” that could advise against the looming coronavirus, since it was urgent:
“We are now in an extreme time, with only a small gap. Either we get an unstoppable outbreak, or we can stop it, before it’s too late.”
Already 17 minutes later, at 09:11, the answer came over, from Norway’s Director of Health.
Now last Thursday, April 16, the doctors at the intensive care unit at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) had a direct online meeting with the professor who is the head of Shanghai’s expert group against corona. The meeting on Zoom was entitled “Covid-19, experience from Shanghai that can be useful for Norwegian practice“. This online meeting came about on the initiative of the Norwegian Chinese Chamber of Commerce and their leader, Elise Chen, and this was done in collaboration with Health South East and the Norwegian Consulate General in Shanghai.
The Norwegian-Chinese Friendship Association has secured Norway thousands of surgical masks (Op-Air 10), made in France, which have been donated to Rikshospitalet and Voss hospitals. And Soon has himself handed over newly developed COVID-19 IgG/IgM “rapid test kits”, which are used in China, to Rikshospitalet. Within 15 minutes, these newly developed test devices will find out who are possible carriers of the coronavirus, writes The Guardian newspaper. The rapid tests are intended to act as an additional safeguard for the traditional PCR tests, which Norway uses.
Chinese Professionals in Norway (CPN) sent two e-mails to the Directorate of Health – the first about masks and isolation.
- We pointed out that you should use a mask to avoid infecting family members. It is important that the social distance is carried out correctly, because even some people without symptoms can infect others, says CPN leader Xiuhua Zhang.
Here are the ten pieces of advice Guldvog received from China. We assume readers will recognize some here:
ADVICE SENT TO HEALTH DIRECTOR BJØRN GULDVOG 1 MARCH 2020:
1. Suggestions from the Norwegian Chinese Friendship Association suggest teamMedical recourses are very limited, that’s why very tough/aggressive measures should be taken at the very beginning!
2. One negative test result is not 100% sure. There are positive cases after 3 or 4 times negative. Those who have traveled to affected areas should quarantine/self-quarantine, as well as those who have close contact.
Reasons: Latent patients might not show positive. The test strip itself might be inaccurate. The test procedures are demanding and sometimes there might be errors in the work. Sometimes the test strip result is negative but the CT shows positive. So a combination of CT and test strips is necessary.
3. Those who come back from the epidemic areas should be quarantined, as well as those suspected patients and close contacted people.
4. Information should be published, not necessarily the name of confirmed patients, but the places where they have been, so that to ensure the public knows if they have been to the same places at the same time, and quarantine themselves.
5. Quarantine must be thorough. Food must be supplied by others in a secure way, e.g. door-delivery by special staff, volunteers, or online shopping, etc.
6. Consider delaying or canceling major events.
7. Recommend to close schools, universities for one week first, and wait and see the situation for further action. It is to stop the outbreak as early as possible in an effective way.
8. Encourage working at home if possible.
9. Further educate the public on epidemic prevention. This is not ordinary flu! Outside is still many Norwegians take it as influenza! Take it very seriously! Better to be safe than sorry.
10.Masks are necessary. Staff in key positions must wear masks, such as doctors and supermarket cashiers, etc.
Comment:
Has the Corona Commission become involved in this meeting activity? Has Bjørn Guldvog been confronted with the fact that he has apparently copied instructions sent from China? When Utrop sits down with minutes from these meetings, why don’t the Directorate of Health, Bjørn Guldvog and the Corona Commission do it?
Norwegian professionals knew at the time that a number of these measures that came as advice from China would not be able to stop any airborne virus. But they were not listened to. Instead, the Solberg government and the health bureaucrats implemented a great deal of what they received as advice from China.
And in retrospect, no one knows where the advice came from or why the measures were implemented.
For our part, we believe that Bjørn Guldvog & co have been involved in this for a much longer time before he received instructions from China. In 2010, The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the most powerful foundations in the world, carried out a so-called scenario exercise about a “future pandemic”. The document summarizing the exercise is entitled Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, and it can be downloaded in its entirety here.
One of the scenarios, Lock step, (“goose walk”) discussed a pandemic in what in 2010 was the near future, namely 2012, and readers will recognize both the descriptions, the thinking and the methods. (From page 18 to page 25.)
Norway participated in the meeting with the Rockefeller Foundation and we will assume that Bjørn Guldvog was a Norwegian participant. He was then assistant director and permanent deputy for the director of health. We cannot document this because the Rockefeller Foundation has since deleted the list of participants and much else from that meeting. We leave it as a claim in order to possibly lure out someone in the bureaucracy who has information about Norway’s role at that meeting.
Among the mainstream media, it seems that Aftenposten is the newspaper that has realized to some extent that it is time to do some journalism. Newspaper writes:
FHI director on school closures: We were not listened to
“What kind of trade-offs were actually made when the schools were closed? The FHI director and the children’s ombudsman still don’t know.”
No, we have no idea. A totally unnecessary and extremely harmful assault was committed against hundreds of thousands of Norwegian children, and the profession still has no idea why!
But it was on the list of measures from China.
Even the Corona Commission must admit that children and young people “were severely affected by the intervention measures” and “lost quality of life”. And that it was unnecessary because “Children and young people had a low risk of illness and death as a result of covid infection, while their life development was significantly limited through reduced attendance at school and occasionally closed leisure activities.”
Joacim Lund writes in Aftenposten:
When the corona committee presented its report on Friday, it emphasized that children and young people in Norway had to bear a disproportionately large burden.
The word disproportionate is worth stopping at. It is more than an adjective.
The Directorate of Health overran everyone
It is called the principle of proportionality. This applies in both administrative law and criminal law and is about the fact that there must be proportionality between the goal and the means. If the goal is, for example, to ensure free movement in the beach zone, the authorities cannot introduce the death penalty for planting a hedge (although some people probably think it is proportionate).
What many are wondering now is whether it was a proportionate measure to close the schools during the pandemic. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health’s (FHI) director, Camilla Stoltenberg, thought it was wrong to close the schools. Children’s ombudsman Inga Bejer Engh also thought so. And the expert committee which was supposed to look precisely at the consequences for children and young people.
But the government closed the schools anyway – in consultation with the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
The Directorate of Health’s assistant director Espen Rostrup Nakstad claims that “very thorough proportionality assessments” were made.
When I say claim, it’s because no one else gets to see them.
And Lund concludes:
Enough secrecy, Directorate of Health!
Aftenposten was not particularly eager to ask critical questions when this madness was going on, but we are happy to slaughter the cuckoo calf for a prodigal son. If the newspaper can continue to conduct critical journalism along these lines, it may be able to restore some of its badly tarnished journalistic honor.
In May 2021, we made an incomplete overview of the government’s violations of the Constitution and other laws.
With the help of the Infection Control Act, a series of sections in the Constitution have been set aside in whole or in part. Here is an incomplete catalog:
Section 113 of the Constitution establishes the principle of legality that “[t]he intervention of the authorities towards the individual must have a basis in law”. A series of government decisions and provisions violate this.
Section 96 of the Constitution which states that “[n]o one can be judged without the law or punished without a sentence”. In reality, the system of forced internment of travelers from abroad appears as a punishment that is not authorized by law and judgement.
Section 106 first paragraph of the Constitution protects freedom of movement within the country’s borders and the right to freely choose one’s place of residence. This provision is quite obviously set aside. Freedom of movement in Norway is so-so after 12 March 2020.
Section 94 of the Constitution establishes a prohibition against arbitrary deprivation of liberty. It has been set aside in connection with the highly arbitrary “hotel quarantine”. It is also a violation of the European Commission on Human Rights (ECHR) Article 5.
The right to respect for private life, family life and home is protected by Section 102 of the Constitution and Article 8 of the ECHR. This is partially set aside by the corona regime.
The right to freedom of assembly is protected by Section 101 of the Constitution and Article 11 of the ECHR. This right has largely been taken away from us, at the latest on 17 May in Oslo 2021.
According to section 104 second paragraph of the Constitution and BK article 3 no. 1, consideration of the child’s best interests must be a fundamental consideration in all actions affecting children. The school closures and other measures against children cannot be said to have taken the child’s best interests as a basis. The Children’s Act and the Convention on the Rights of the Child are also violated by the corona regime.
§92 of the Constitution: The state’s authorities must respect and ensure human rights as laid down in this Constitution and in treaties on human rights that are binding on Norway. You can’t say that the corona regime does that.
§100 of the Constitution: Everyone has the right to inspect state and municipal documents and to follow the proceedings in court hearings and elected bodies. This has been broken many times during the corona regime, and quite obviously without any factual reason.
§101 of the Constitution: Everyone can meet in peaceful assemblies and demonstrations. No, you can’t do that under the corona regime.
§109 of the Constitution: Children have the right to receive basic education. Here, the law must mean full-fledged education, and strong questions can be raised about whether the school provision Norwegian students have received in the corona year is in accordance with the law.
The corona regime also breaks other laws
Professor at the Faculty of Law at UiT, Johan Aulstad, believes that the use of the Signal messaging service can be a circumvention of the Offentleglova (law regulating open access to documents in public service, translators note).
The Press Publicity Committee believes the report reveals a disturbing attitude towards the Public Information Act and the Archives Act in parts of the civil service. The top brass in the Ministry of Health and Care, the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health have shown a frighteningly nonchalant attitude towards the requirement that decisions be documented and recorded. This has led to the commission not getting to the bottom of several key issues.
The committee believes that the government does not comply with the Public Information Act, the Archives Act and the Public Administration Act.
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