By Lars Bo Appel
Here is the speech I wish a politician would give from the floor of the parliament.
Dear colleagues, honorable members of the Norwegian Parliament:
I love life.
I love children's laughter, crying and smoothing motherly love. Diaper changes and heated baths. Dark circles under the eyes and unfocused working days after too little sleep. The first step. Days away with the boys. Plasters on knees and elbows after the difficult encounters with gravity. And the invisible force in the school yard. The first kiss behind the bike shed. Popcorn and cinema darkness.
I love it - and what every start turns into with graduations and apprenticeships. New businesses that open and then close. Put on the glove - up again. New adventures.
I love it. I love new paths and free thoughts. Grandma plays the violin while Grandpa spreads tomato paste in the cottage kitchen. So all the new kids can come in and start over.
That is why I chose to become a politician. I want to help create a safe environment for the unfolding of life. Frames where things can develop and make life bigger. All during proper debate between different interests, here in the hall and in an open and lively public debate.
It doesn't matter how much it helps if life gets smaller. And I can read in the statistics that it does. The birth rate is shrinking and whatever the case, fertility is falling like a rock.
Problems we cannot ignore. And true to form, 140 million have just been set aside to investigate the matter. But not a word about a possible connection to the covid 19 vaccines. I'm not saying there is a connection, but there is a coincidence. I think you are all aware of that. If not, I can give you sources so that you can see the matter.
We should respond to that doubt. Therefore, I would like to urge that we at least stop the Covid-19 vaccine recommendation for pregnant women and young people under 40, who demonstrably have no reason to take the vaccines other than the reasons we here in the thing gave them. With threats to lose work and stop traveling, all the things needed to live life to the fullest. The restrictions have now been lifted, but the recommendation remains. We do not yet know the consequences. So let's pause until we know more.
Let's listen to the flimsy debate out there in real life, which unfortunately points to more and extremely ominous other consequences. And let's hope it doesn't matter that the decisions we made in haste don't limit life. Let's ensure that everyone can safely accept recommendations from our authorities for the benefit of their health, work and life. Let's do the right thing, for the life we are meant to protect, for all the lives we are all meant to fight for. If we have made a mistake together due to fear and therefore haste, let us rather admit the mistake and correct it rather than trying to hide in the hope that it will correct itself.
If it turns out that we have not made mistakes, then it is precisely a tribute to life.
I love life.
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