News from Denmark: So far, so good.
- The curve has been bent - the shutdown is a success - so far!
- Sticking with the guidelines: Keep social distancing. Don't let your guard down.
- Lots of praise to danish population.
- Possible,
gradual, cautious partial opening after Easter.
- Details not ready yet, but involves some kind of time-sharing: less office hours, still a lot of work from home.
- Data driven approach: nothing is ruled out
. Adjustments will come.
- Talk about 'the 2nd half' of the battle (after Easter to ... next months):
- more testing
- health personnel testing/screening
- broad-spectrum testing:
- what is the general spread
- looking for 'immunity': if you had the virus and survived you are perhaps allowed to work a lot
- huge scale-up in testing using both local production and scaling and bought tests.
Export industries: top priority
standard/normal working hours expanded from (standard) 8-17 to 06 to 20 - at least
Weekend working as well -(at least Saturday) short days
In total ~40 hours more in any given week
A lot of work from home - still. Perhaps: "Work from home but meet at office": 50/50. Or less.
If all of above is implemented, the 'base load' of people at any given time is 1/3 to 1/4 of today - massive de-risking re. contagion.
The tone:
PM struck a nice balance of hope, seriousness, and focus: A good blend of optimism but also warning: Keep obeying the guidelines! If not, the good future will not arrive.
Personal view:
- Anything other than further tightening is good.
- A fair chance of a gradual, controlled opening: Very good news!
- Still cancelling my Easter with the family. Still practicing social distancing.
