A big day for Norway today!

As of 4 PM today, Norway will officially lift all covid restrictions across the country, meaning that people will once again be able to do handshake greetings, hug each other and dance at nightclubs and mingle in bars like before the pandemic. The one meter distance rule will also be lifted, as well as the official advice to wear a mask in public places such as stores , movie theaters etc and on public transportation. I actually went to the store earlier today without a mask as I'm fully vaccinated and it felt both weird and liberating at the same time. The government claims they'll manage to have control of people in hospital with covid as the numbers are manageable and the general infection rate in Norway is very low as well and it keeps dropping. The corona virus will never go away, but now health officials in Norway say we can treat it as another respiratory illness, along with the common cold, given how many of us are vaccinated and more people hopefully will get vaccinated as well. In the worst case scenario, there'd be another variant of the virus that would be more resistant to the vaccines, spreading even more easily, causing us to have another lockdown but I'm crossing fingers that won't happen.