ABC Brat Camp – the failed US version

After the Brat Camp reality show enjoyed some success in the United Kingdom before it became apparent that they did not benefit the children in their life in a culture based on other values, a television company in the United States got the good idea to make an American version of Brat Camp.

After all American youth will come back and remain in the same youth culture where they will linger their life away until they turn 21 and can start to enjoy life.

So they picked a wilderness program called Sagewalk and selected Frank Hewitt, Lauren James, Isaiah Alarcon, Jada Chabot, Nick Thompson, Shawn Dreyfus, Derek Foss, Lexie McNulty and Heather Norton as guinea pigs. Sagewalk realized that it a pleasant marketing prospect and introduced a more TV-friendly version of their so-called therapy program with way more adventure in it compared to the non-televised detainees got.

After lots of drama and some confessions newspapers believed should be private, the show ended with its apparent winners and losers. Especially the girl Jada was portrayed as a failure. The American network did not want to make a second season because already back then before everyone knows about breakingcodesilence there was a message board called Fornits which got attention and it became apparent that parents would be thousand of dollars for basically something which scared the children emotionally and in many cases just postphoned the future the children was going through before they enterd the program.

Now 15 years have passed. I have been doing a little research. The teenage girl who they were so quick to judge a failure traveled to Portugal where she met a more liberal culture regarding alcohol and drugs. Given the free choices, she decided over there that drugs are overrated when you can do them peacefully in your own pace without having to concern yourself about the authorities. So she decided to base her life on other values and works professional success today.

Was it then for nothing? No, because the show created the foundation for a tragedy. Sagewalk made people to believe that wilderness therapy programs are safe. Of course there have been deaths in the programs before the TV-show, but even when the television and the media was against a second season, there were parents so desperate seeking a solution for the problems their family structure created for their children that they sought the solution using a wilderness program.

So some years later a 16-year-old boy named Sergey Blashchishen entered Sagewalk. He was under influence of medication and that caused his body to be less prepared to face the harsh environment. Within 24 hours of entering the wilderness program, he died.

That became the end for Sagewalk and the worst part is that some of the employees had worked at other wilderness programs where children died before they joined Sagewalk. Nothing was learned in their old job and the local sheriff made sure that the operations were shut down for good.

So that became the legacy for the Brat Camp reality TV-show. A show which fooled the viewers to believe that it was a safe kind of operation but also showed that the concept does not work at all.

For some years the wilderness programs have tried to make insurance companies believe that they are a real treatment option. I hope that that the business does not succeed in luring millions of dollars out of the pockets of the shareholders of the insurance companies. That would be one of the biggest scams forever.

Brat Camp as a TV-concept is dead. The producer and inventor took her own life out of guilt over what she put in motion. But right now on this very day there are still teenagers who are dragged out of their own bed at night by hired goons and then are transported to wilderness programs around in the United States.

Please be a part of the movement to shut them down.

Sources:

• Sergey Blachchishen (Today a child died – memorial blog)
• Why Was This On TV? (I Am A Child Of Television)

Boot camp – a movie based on real events

Back in 2008 a movie starring a very young Mila Kunis, some random dude and always good acting Peter Stormare brought some headline and made the audience – especially the one outside the United States gain a view into the Troubled Teen Industry.

The premise is that parents can outsource fixing the behaviors of their children by hiring some goons to drag the teenagers of to some kind of remote island where they are subjected to all kind of discipline which makes the Abu Ghraib prison look like a summer camp.

Fiction – most people believed. No parents would do such thing but rather change their own behavior and become real about how their own acting out displays life values at their children.

But now where the world has known names like Tranquility Bay in Jamaica, Dundee Ranch in Costa Rica, Casa by the Sea in Mexico and Paradise Cove at Samoa and more recently how Earl Sweatshirt got his entire successful career destroyed at Coral Reef Academy while the careers of his band members took off, the movie now is far from fiction.

The movies ending I will not spoil but most of the places mentioned in this article has been closed down by the authorities. Only Coral Reef Academy remains open and they are able to hold the teenagers until age 21.

Also the movie failed to reveal what happened when the teenagers return. In real life relatives have been killed by the now young adults returning from such camps with a grudge. Others did simply not overcome the torment they were exposed to and killed themselves.

It was an interesting movie sparking interest for many into an evil which should be shut down.

When they tried to make abuse hot – Brat Camp

Some year ago a producer for unknown reason betrayed the famous British lifestyle of pub-crawling and partying when she got her workplace which was a TV-production company to remove 6 young British teenagers from their safe normal upbringing and fooled their parents into allowing their children to travel to the United States where they were subjected to what we in Europe would a very cruel exposure to an alienate culture. Many saw it as clear child abuse and some wondered if that kind of exposure to these cruelties would not result in the death of a child at some point.

Of course the TV-cameras spared the British teenagers from the worse. The viewers did not come to see one of them die as it has happened over and over again in wilderness programs and boot camps in the United States.

Of course we normal citizens in Europe sometime feel the shootings in our streets when the youth gangs from various ghettos start shooting in our streets to such a level that the United States Embassy in Denmark felt the urge to warn tourists of the shootings in Copenhagen. Copenhagen should not be Beirut but there have been periods where you felt you were walking the Green line down there instead of Noerrebro.

The first batch

Anyhow the British youth were sent to Redcliff Ascent in Utah and were subjected some levels of cruelty. It is not a wonder that some teenagers in the United States tried to escape the wilderness program and others rebelled violently to such an extend that the Sheriff had to be called in.

The follow-up saw many of the young teenagers to revert to their normal old way and others later spoke out about how they did not know about the 90-days VISA rule which fooled them into betraying their British heritage.

James Fonfé, Fran Bradley, Rachel Greenberg, Charlie Mason, Tom Philips and Dan Leary was the name of the first batch.

The second batch

Rather awful the show then moved to the infamous Turnabout Ranch which also is used by the entertainment show Dr. Phil. In the public the ranch is mostly known for the terrible murder of an employee caused by placing a teenager at the ranch who should have been detoxed at a secure hospital. But when money talks, every child is a candidate.

From the second batch consisting of Alex Parkins, Joe Sheldrick, Ed McAllister, Jemma Henley, Xanthe Laird, Jenni Greevy and Josh Melvin, Jemma came out of on the top. She is today a reality star and the very image of the young modern British lifestyle.

Still not learning from the backlash the producers made a third, forth and fifth season.

The third batch

The third batch consisted of Julia Krzyzanowska (Bodzon), Georgie Turnbull-Atkinson, Lydia Rowlands, Lucy Tyson, Danni Calardo-Thompson, Poppy Olsen and Rosie Raven. It took place at Aspen Achievement Academy which at that time was a part of Aspen Education Group which is defunct today after many children died in their care. At places on the internet you can see that some of the children from the United States felt the place as a punishment and that they in reality were detaineees instead of patients.

Lydia later had a dancing career and Danni started a family. Lucy had to be expelled to Turn-about Ranch because the employees could not handle her even when they tried to break her wrists. It can been seen on Youtube.

Poor Georgie got her mother to finance a very expense stay at a boot camp in Texas which is now closed. Excel Academy was a very abusive place where the children were put in jump suit and even taken to prison where they were exposed to undressing by the inmates. A police officer was later convicted of this offense because the children were not convicted in court. He used his connections to make it happen.

The forth batch

The forth batch consisted of Benjamin Tait, Claire Sparrow, Amanda Kenny and Rebecca Paramor. Sadly the torment caused poor Benjamin to relapse into drug abuse and he died some years ago. It was the first season where the parents should come with the children and the reason of why the teenagers acted out according to the standards of Utah became very clear. Some of the parents could not cope with extreme elements they were put in and wanted out. If the parents cannot cope, why should the children then remain?

What kind of parent want to inflict a punishment on the child when the child just does these kind of actions and copy their parents like all children do? Cats are born with closed eyes for a reason but human children observe their parents from day one and it shapes them into how they become. It is what the child sees which provide the results – not what the child hears.

The forth show was a new thing for the organisators of the wilderness program. SUWS did not offer family camps at that point. Two children had died in their program so the sale numbers were a bit low, so they were looking for something new. In the end the TV-show did not work. They closed down in Idaho and are now only operatting in North Carolina.

The fifth batch

The fifth batch consisted of Natasha Whitlock, Nicole Pear, Chloe Weeks and Laura Wardman. They were sent to the Anasazi wilderness program together with their mothers who unlike their children could opt out halfway in the stay even when it became clear that most of them were actually causing the behavior of their children due to inconsistent strategies in the upbringing of their children.

Of course it is good television with the child breaking down when the mother runs off to get her nails and hair done in the civilisation but good therapy? No. The fifth season proved the last.

Later developments

By then the viewers could see how damaging this show was. The teenagers were not getting any lessons into how to navigate the culture and daily life they would be a part of in the United Kingdom. The lessons learned was how to live in Utah and that should not have been the point.

The program was removed from the air and the producer became so depressed about the cruelty the children had been exposed to that she took her own life.

For a time it seem like a good idea to broadcast child abuse live on television but in the long run it was a poor idea. Other countries tried to do the same and I will write a separate blog entry about those programs.

I think how the children are doing today. Of course most will know how Jemma did if they look for her name on the Internet but the rest? They must now be fully grown adults. Did they regain their British lifestyle or did they become caught between two cultures?

Sources about the show:

• Where the wild things are (The Guardian – about season 1)
• Jemma Lucy (Wikipedia – one of the detainees in season 2 known at that point as a Jemma Henley)
• The brats are back (Manchester Evening News – about season 3)
• Desert Brats (Daily Mail – about season 4)
• Brat Camp, Channel 4 (Lancashire Telegraph – one of the detainees in season 5)

Sources about the behavior modification programs used in the show:

• Truth or Consequences (Outdoor Magazine – speaks about Redcliff Ascent)
• Murder At Turn-About Ranch (Medium)
• Testimonies from Aspen Achievement Academy (Just another hike – testimonial blog)
• The deaths at SUWS (Today a child died – memorial blog)

2020 – a deadly year in the US behavior modification industry

Regardless if you child does not like the food you put on the table, you live near a crappy school so your kid gets poor grades, your child allies with your ex. during a divorce and you have custody because you paid the judge off or the adoption industry oversold you a child with no cash-back guarantee after 10 years, there is always a facility, a boarding school, boot camp or a wilderness program, you can dump your child to if you have the money.

Most children return to the real world with emotional scars due to being inflicted to that kind of ordeal.

But some does not return home. They die.

Every year some children die in the TTI and professionals call the Teenage Trouble Industry.

And it is an industry where money are paid as referral fees to educational consultants, school officials, other parents and medical employees who refer a family to them.

In the year 2020, 6 children died.

Here are their names:

First to die was 16 year old Cornelius Frederick at Lakeside Academy. “I cannot breathe” other students heard. He was crushed to death by the employees. The facility closed as many do when they claim the life of one of the children. Is this not a bit late for the poor victims? Well. That is how it has been for more than 20 years when children when they are restrained by adults. It took place May 1st, 2020.

Second to die was 17 year old Naomi Massa Wood who died from an illness the employees at a Teen Challenge center called Lakeland Teen Challenge could not pray away. The employees had no medical training and properly some kind of disbelief in the medical science because most normal people would have sent the poor girl to a hospital. The tragedy took place May 19, 2020.

Third to die was Monrius Rendon who died during an outing May 30, 2020 organized by Cape Cod Adolescent Treatment Center. The circumstances of his downing is a bit unclear and how the staff could miss seeing him down is a kind of mystery.

12-year-old Timmy Montoya-Kloepfel was hit by a car on June, 2020 when he tried to escape from the Tennyson Center for Children. It is unclear what he was running from. Some group homes have people employed who is not professional and as result the children suffer. That is something we also see in Denmark. It is important to look at the background of each and every employee to see what kind of education into the issues children placed at the home suffer from to find out why he made the choice to be on the run.

The life of 12-year-old Jared Camacho was also claimed in the traffic. He was placed at a facility called Steps Academy and he died on September 11, 2020. The circumstances are still under investigation by various human rights organizations.

The last known victim was 13-year-old Rylan Harris who downed when he was on the run from Tusla Boys ‘Home. Was the authorities alerted fast enough. We do know that his death is mentioned to have happened around December 8, 2020.

So 2020 became a deadly year. I send my prayers to the relatives and friends left behind. I hope that that the people responsible for the laws look into how the conditions can be improved so fewer children die in 2021.

Sources:

• Teen dies after being restrained at Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo (M Live)
• Faith-based Lakeland Girls Academy draws scrutiny after teen’s death (The Ledger)
• Teenager who drowned while in state custody shouldn’t have been allowed in water, records show (Boston 25 News)
• Colorado’s child protection ombudsman announces new program to review child deaths (The Colorado Sun)
• Mason family burying 12-year-old son killed by car in Cleveland (Cincinannati.com)
• Runaway Oklahoma teen found dead in Arkansas River after escaping residential treatment facility: officials (Fox News)

How the world is ill-informed about Denmark

We Danes pay close to 50 percent in taxes. A lot of the money goes to feed a massive army of public service men. They are small kings given authority in return for a humble salary. That means that ordinary Danes often get run over. In more than 66 percent of the cases where children are removed from their parents, there are serious flaws in the case files. In some of those cases hospitals are denied access to treat children for mental illnesses and the children are sent to group homes or foster families where they are warehoused until they become adults and only then they get treated.

Also elderlies who have paid taxes all their lives are ill-treated in nursing homes and some cannot even get visited often enough because the army of public servicemen use tons of hours on measuring how many minutes the employees should use on each of the citizens.

Most of the time the surrounding world does not know how Denmark is run. They do not know the extend of reports being made. And it is not only about Danish conditions they make reports. It is about the entire world. Not many know that they have so many public servicemen working for the Danish government that a large percentage of the Danish labor force is not for disposal for private firms.

Now reports they made tell the story that there are peace in Syria. That news is good for the people in Syria but also for the refugees in Denmark who originate from Syria because now they can return home and with the skills required in Denmark from our education system which we regard as the superior education system on this planet. In Denmark people who have earned university degrees abroad often end up as taxa drivers because the standard of education abroad often is very poor compared to Danish standards. So the other way around they would go home and become game changers in Syria.

However the good news are mispresented by foreign media channels like CNN. The good work of the many public servicemen are suddenly presented as change in Danish politics. I believe it is unfair for us Danes who have to accept the actions of the public servicemen. Why do we have to put up with their ruling on their small kingdoms when it is called unfair by all other counties the very minutes foreigners experience the result of thousand of hours spent in dark offices somewhere in Copenhagen?

They could be right. They could be wrong. But does it matter? Of course the worse scenario could be that the government of Syria could hold up some kind of grudge against the refugees and then they will die when they return home.

But having been born in Denmark and having spent my entire life here in a country where our possibility of early retirement has vanished and we have been in lockdown for too long, I can honestly say that it doesn’t matter how we ends this life. There is no future here. Denmark is finished because we have to carry the burden of earning money not only for us but also for the other countries who is part of the European Union because their population is born lazy and the Union needs more money now where the United Kingdom has left. In another country they might have a chance or maybe not. I do not know and I do not care because everything is over.

Source:

• In its latest lurch to the far right, Denmark plans to send some refugees back to Syria (CNN)

Impeachment just for politics?

I guess that you went you read the headline, you guessed this blog-entry would be about the Impeachment of Donald Trump? But it will not! I stopped concerning myself about the rest of the world when Denmark was hit hardest among any country on this Earth as result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

No – the Impeachment case I will write about is one which came into light when a minister in Denmark tried to stop childbrides from continuing to be subjected to the bizarre wishes of their often much older husband when they enter Denmark as immigrants.

In Denmark you can get married when your age is below 18, if you apply for approval – in the past called “a letter from the King”. That allows the authorties to gain time to investigate if it is a real wish – not just a requirement from the man to legitimate what people would call statutory rape. So separation by defaults and then individual case work.

So as result of this intervention, couples were separated by default and then the caseworkers could start to look into if the underaged person – often the girl – wanted to be in the marriage by free commitment or the couple was together because local legislation in the country they came from allowed this per default.

The problem is that Danmark has signed an United Nation convention which states that the possible rape has to be allowed to continue until the case workers has written reports, submitted it to their boss and the boss then together with an appeal board had a number of meetings about what to decide.

That sounds cruel. You come to a civilized country as a young girl hardly able to understand anything and then you have to endure rape, after rape, after rape until a number of officials have meetings and coffee several time before you can seperated from the abusive husband.

Cruel – but legal and of course no minister should go against our laws even when it is about a noble thing like saving small girls from remaining as child brides.

Just as no farmer should be forced to cull all his animals when there is no law allowing the government to order it. That was what happened when 17 million minks were culled – often under grusome conditions because it had to happen so fast. There was no law in place. The government just ordered it saying that it was to protect the Danish population from a mutation of Covid-19. So far there has been no Impeachment of our government. A minister has taken all the blame and has resigned even when he only had a small part of it and both the Danish police and military took part of the operation forcing farmers to give up on their livestock when they knew that the order was illegal. None is being impeached for that.

So most Danes today see the impeachment as result of an political agenda where the management of the party “Venstre” has asked for help to get rid of a political rival.

It is very sad that this is the result of Denmark being member of the United Nation and it is sad for the young girls who now have to endure months of suffering while social care workers hold meetings about their fate and it is very sad for the farmers who saw all their animals gone due to an illegal order from our Prime Minister.

Source:

Historic moment! Inger Støjberg handed impeachment trial  (The Copenhagen Post)

China seems to have been best prepared for the pandemic

For unknown reasons China has announced that the year of 2020 resulted in a small growth in their economic. It is way more that Denmark can hope for.

The future of Denmark as a country does not look good. Being forced to pay for a lot of countries in the European Union who are not able to cope on their own while fighting the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, makes the future look awful.

Tons of people have already lost their jobs. Our health care system which had experienced cuts could not cope with the pandemic and the close to only one thousand new patients due to the pandemic brought it closed to collapse. Why the cuts? They were due to the demands of paying for the restoration of Eastern Europe, immigrants, consequences of the foundation of United Nations and decolonization which came with it. Because our health care system was close to collapse, the Danish government ordered the lockdown which in many ways are even stricter than the lockdowns, the Nazis imposed on Denmark when Denmark was occupied.

Denmark was not well-prepared for the pandemic. China seems to have been gotten some level of warning, so they prepared themselves. How and who that warned them, I will not put my mind to. I can only tell that the Danish economy will suffer and it has suffered big time during 2020. 2021 is basically a lost year just as 2020 was it.

In the northen part of Ireland they have no goods in their store. The superelite who manages the European Union has decided to punish the people in the United Kingdom a bit by making every single truck fill out tons of paper before they cross the border from Ireland to Northern Ireland. It sounds like me that the European Union will try to put a little fire to the on-going conflict in the Northern Ireland hoping to de-stablize United Kingdom, so they cannot benefit from Brexit. Like Denmark United Kingdom was one of the few contributors to the budget in the European Union where only a handful of countries pay for the rest who are lazy and seems to lack the concept of hard work among their population.

In Denmark the problem is not that there is no goods. The problem is that we have the plan law. It is a law that dictates that every time you built a supermarket, you have to etablish some parking spaces also so the customers do not park in front of houses etc. when they come to buy their daily goods. That makes a lot of their property an area where they cannot make from from. So the good supermarket owners hired private parking management firms to put up signs and charge 100 euros limited the parking time to a very short time so customers have to run through the shop and do their shopping with their children screaming due to stress and shouting parents.

Why 100 euros instead of 40 or 50 as you see it in most European Countries? Because the Danish goverment ordered them to establish a board where people can complain to. The parking management firms realized that they will lose a big part of the profit they share with the supermarket owners when people were able to complain. In the past, the firms just ignored the complaints and ordered lawyers to bankrupt the car owners, making people pay – in some cases car owners whos car never was there but the result of the parking attendants writing up random numbers they saw in the streets. So the parking management firms calculated the cost of losing half the fines due to the new appeal board and increased the fines. The Danish government ignored it because most of the politicians do not care about the general population. Just as in the United States they are the elite – often the product of their own system – school teachers, public officials, journalist from the national television station – often become politicians so they can support the system which gave them their career.

The result is that most Danes avoid going to supermarkets and avoid everything which can put them in danger of getting a parking fine. The result is very much the same as in the Northern Ireland. Danes also have to live with difficulties buying their daily groceries.

When or should I rather say if the world ever get rid of the Covid-19 virus because the vaccines in many cases only work a year or two, it is not certain that the many shops will reopen or people will start new ones. We have learned that online shopping is good. The times where we had to risk the economy of the entire family just to go shopping due to the parking management firms are over. The times of shopping malls are over. They can keep their parking spaces. If they open up and stop putting a time limit on how long we can park, we might consider to leave our homes once again but if you put it up to my, I will not support any local shop if they restrict parking. Then I will do all my shopping online.

I guess the time of travelling and the concept of hotels also to a very large limit is over. They must as many have done convert the hotels into student apartments. We must invent new ways of making money. New ways which do not involve the necessary of travelling abroad. We must reuse the resources we already have used once. Making small batteries out of nuclear waste so we do not have to buy oil or gas for heating. Break up roads we no longer use like they do in large parts of Denmark called the Rotten Banana. The European Union has in fact already asked Denmark to convert a large part of our country to wasteland so nature can take over. Many people with an education like the ones immigrants enter with having university degrees from outside Denmark which in many examples are just as good as 9 years of basic schooling in Denmark, cannot find jobs in the cities. Now they live in the wasteland. What Denmark is going to do with the people who hide outthere because they will not enter the poor house system Denmark have with its so-called “job-training job” which is basically unpaid labor for firms who can then export goods cheaper, may have to re-enter the cities and accept the fate that they will never get a real job with a real salary.

The pandemic has been bad for Denmark for a long number of reasons. If we only had known something about the Covid-19 virus in advance which China must have since they can done so good with their economy, Denmark might have done better, but it is not the case.

That is really all I can manage to write about this morning. Have a nice day.

Source:

China Is the Only Major Economy to Report Economic Growth for 2020 (The Wall Street Journal)

2020 is over. What a year it was

Looking back at 2020, my life has not been great. The year brought a lot of challenges finding a job for the future. I have not yet reached my goal but I avoid the “motivation courses” at the job centers where people who loses their jobs are ordered to meet up with a bucket which then are filled with icy water. Then you have to keep your feet into the water until you have no feeling left. It is the punishment they meter out because you lost your job. If you can google translate the article, you can read about this concept in this link.

I found a job through a friend. It is not an idea job. I was down at the job-center and the case worker told me that being a SOSU-assistant properly would be the best alternative. I am not good with people at close by. I am not good with talking to people. It was not a problem because as the case worker told me, it is a kind of trashcan option and the people in the retirement homes do not know if I do my job or not because they are mostly mentally challenged. But what I had a problem with it because I could risk becoming old myself?

So I will avoid aiming for that line of business. I like to use my hands and the new job allows me that. I work in shifts. When I started I was told to avoid people from the Eastern part of Europe who works for one of the other contractors. It is not because they cannot be trusted or bad to work together with. No. The reason is that they often are illegal workers and they sleep close together in cramped quaters like 20 people in their own sleeping bag in small unheated rooms while they are hiding from the Danish authorities and Danish trade unions, so they are more likely to get Covid-19. So at work we distance us self from them.

Otherwise I cannot complain when I think that Denmark unlike the most of the countries on this earth got the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. I do not read newspapers anymore. They only reflect what the central regime in Copenhagen want to say. All over this part of Denmark where I live, I hear stories about people losing their jobs. There were a lot of mink farms just outside the city and they lost all their animals and their line of business for the rest of their lives. They will never be able to start up again after two years where they are ordered to stop. The banks and all the investors will see to that. They are gone – finished. They only need to take their shotgun, point it at themselves and make all the suffering stop. I am so happy that I am not in their shoes. I think of them all the day.

And that is reason that I honestly believe that no people in any country has it as hard as we have thanks to this Chinese virus. I hope that we somehow can learn from it.

And the very first lesson we need to learn is that globalization is bad! People should not travel the world. All my life – even my vacations have been spent in Denmark. I have never been abroad. My social heritage is from the working class. And as a Dane from the working glass, studying and working outside Denmark, even outside my local area is out of bounds.

What I see is that the illness was taken into Denmark because people simply travel too much. We need to stop that and the second thing is that we need to produce things locally. We have the food right at our kitchen window. Vertical farming, new food sources like seaweed means that food can be harvested right outside our window. We have pigs enough to get all the meat we need.

Secondary we need to reuse all our trash instead of burning it. A lot more effort can be put into that.

Last but not least we need to look how we can fence Denmark off. If fewer people crossed our borders, then the pandemic will not expand so fast. So isolation is the keyword, just as we mentally isolate the people working at the same place as we do if they are not from our town or country.

Only then we can move on. Yes. There is an vaccine but the virus will mutate like the normal influenza making the vaccine obsolete within years and then the pandemic restarts until we change the way we live.

That that change is really my new years wish. So goodbye to a year we want to forget and good day to new year where we learn to look better out for ourselves.

Back in job but the virus has been mutating nearby

Not so far from here – in the village Sindal – there perhaps has been a close, but also a little bizarre contact between single men and their animals on the farm has caused the infection with Covid-19 can now jump between Minks and Humans. An elderly center is in the process of being eradicated for residents and the authorities is trying to find out where the lone farmers trade or otherwise meet with people.

There is no barbed wire around Sindal, but it is only a matter of time.

I’m back to work

Now for some personal news. I have been glad that a few years ago I was forced to sell my company when E-conomic unexpectedly tore the economy away by raising the license price. Today, many companies choose to have their programs in the cloud via subscriptions. This leads to an increased risk of hacking, but also that one’s company may be forced into the grave, as most contracts open the possibility of being able to up the license price at too short notice. But such is the world. The rich tugs shovel in, while we craftsmen have to settle for crumbs.

Denmark is very likely to be the hardest place to live when you do not have a university paper. Every day offers suffering, every day offers walking up the hill.

However, I am so lucky that I have been home with salary compensation from the state. Now I’m back to work again. For my employer has not had been so easy and we are not all back at work. For some their working life is over.

What about the next wave of Covid-19?

We cannot shut down society again. We cannot prevent single farmers like those out in Sindal from maintaining their strange relationships with their animals in the barn. So what can we do?

We have to go to work and then shop online. It’s a shame for shops and restaurants, but the future is online shopping, Take-Away and drinking parties with friends at home. We come to live as our great-grandparents where many had never been outside their city or country. Will we miss it? Maybe, but it is very nice to sit at home in front of the screens and then be able to judge the world from a distance instead of going into it.

We still know better than anybody else on this globe, so there is no need to drag ourselves down by seeking out others.

Yes. This is how the future will be. It is not a total disaster.

Lost my future due to Covid-19

My job has been lost.

As result of the general shutdown in Denmark, my workplace will shut down. As many others we will never be able to get a normal work.

I am too old. I have not turned 30 but full time jobs with real salary is only for people just out of school. Once you are thrown out of the system, you will be referred to Job-training as they call it where you will receive no real salary but where the case workers will send you to firms who exports goods so they can avoid paying to much in salary and remain competitive.

All this thanks to the European Union and their open borders which allowed people coming into Denmark and infect us.

When this is over I will speak for global isolation of each country and I hope that there is a Danish politician who will pick up this task and make it happen.