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Nation of litterbugs – literally Facemasks: misdirection and infection INTERNATIONAL Trump considered swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland
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IVE YEARS ago, it was street food wrappings, last year, it was laughing gas capsules, and in 2020, it’s facemasks – the country’s most littered item! The government’s requirement that they should be worn on public transport, enforced since August 22, has already led to discarded facemasks piling up on the Metro. Health officials in Aarhus, where facemasks have been compulsory on public transport since August 7, have warned that not only are they potentially infected with coronavirus, but also other viruses and germs. Never has the term ‘litterbug’ been more apt.
Doormen in demand THE COMPULSORY facemask order was the key point of Phase 4, which also gave permission to bars and restaurants to stay open until 02:00, providing they don’t admit new guests after 23:00. Doormen are currently in high demand as a result! Nightlife venues will have to wait until October 31 to reopen, unless they can satisfy the authorities they are technically a bar. Meanwhile, the six-day rule for tourists has been relaxed, meaning they will now be able to enter Denmark to spend the weekend. Overall, the R reproduction rate (the average number an infected person gives coronavirus to) has stabilised again at 1.0, after rising to 1.5 on August 6. (BH)
4-5 GDP suffers huge slide
Early retirement bill
DENMARK’S GDP shrank by 7.4 percent in the second quarter of 2020 – three times more than the biggest quarterly fall experienced during the Financial Crisis in 2008. However, the EU average was a fall of 11.9 percent, with the outgoing UK seeing a decrease of more than 20 percent.
THE GOVERNMENT has unveiled its proposal to allow ‘worn out’ workers, who have been in the Danish labour market for at least 42 years, to retire early and receive 13,550 kroner a month before tax: 42 years = a year earlier, 43 = two years etc. Some 60 percent of trade union members are eligible – mostly careers that involve heavy work.
Dying brood in city JUST 11 percent of infants under the age of two in the capital were born into working class families, according to an Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd report. In 1980, the share was 40 percent. Since then, the ‘elite’ has seen its share in Copenhagen rise from 11 to 43 percent. Nationwide, the working class has halved since 1980, while the elite has tripled.
Answer’s ‘No’. Period A PROPOSAL by independent MP Sikandar Siddique to give women ten days off a year to help them deal with difficult periods has been dismissed by the employment minister, Peter Hummelgaard. The minister wished women “good luck” in trying to convince their employers, but said it was “not something the government wants to pursue".
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