Dear Denmark: 'We are denied the right to be with who we love'

Correction: as it turns out, not even terminal illness is considered a valid reason to allow a partner in. We're just allowed to visit the funeral. This sickens me to my stomach. :(

People are not just separated from their long-time partners (which is difficult enough to cope with and has nothing to do with "getting laid"), but because of these regulations there are children and families missing one parent and upcoming parents who are about to miss the birth of a child. <br /><br />It's also not just "3 whole months". Most of us haven't seen our partners in over 3 months already. (Over four months in my case.) We survived that. We weren't blind. We saw the state of the pandemic and waited patiently for the situation to improve. But now that it has and when most of Europe is slowly opening borders again, Denmark chooses to postpone our reunions until "after summer". If there was any logic behind this decision and indeed IF our travels would cause risk of the virus spreading more in Denmark, we would be more understanding. But there isn't any logic here. We wouldn't be spreading the virus because we are all happy to get tested and self-quarantine. <br /><br />Denmark will soon be letting in tourists from Germany, Norway and Iceland over our much smaller group of individuals with much stronger connections to the country. Those tourists will be traveling around doing tourist-y things. They won't self-quarantine, but we would. <br /><br />Denmark even already acknowledges that partners are a different category from tourists, allowing exceptions for Germans and other Scandinavians already (using a special form for proof of partnership). Yet the only way for me to see my fiancée this summer would be for her to end up on the intensive care in the hospital. Then I'm suddenly "family" enough to come say goodbye to her. At the same time, a German tourist from just over the border to my east (I'm from the Netherlands) has no problem just booking a vacation anywhere in Denmark except for Copenhagen.<br /><br />Even if you disagree with us about the regulations doing more harm than good, I hope you can understand how bizarre and demoralizing this feels to all those who are affected by them.

What a nasty comment, Luigi. Free movement is a basic human right. Love is THE most important thing in life. These closed borders have tremendously destructive influence on different aspects of life, including this one. These impacts must be considered when weighing whether such measures are worth while or not.

Ah, how sad! How pathetic, actually! "on behalf of all those who have yet to find us. We write because we are unable, despite our fundamental needs as human beings, to be with those who we love, which we need now more than ever as we are in a time of crisis and global uncertainty" Three months without getting laid and these spoiled people can't take it, to the point they need to create a 'group' to whine about it. One wonders what they would have done during the last world wars when husbands and wives went off to war for very long stretches and many did not return. Are their lives so shallow that depression sets in if not with their mate for a whole 3 months! Hey, lets' have a rally, lets protest, let's virtue signal, for how can we cope.....So sad to think, with all the turmoil in the world today that people feel THEIR needs MUST be met. Go get a life for crying out sakes!