– It’s about having a certain number of cans and liters of water at home, says Jørgen Sebastian Solli Skogan (21). – Isn’t it? He and his friend Emil Johannes Kögeler Vögele (20) have received the self-preparedness advice that the authorities updated at the end of May. At least roughly like that. – You must have enough to get by in … Is it three days?, says Vögele. – It’s probably expanded now, says Skogan. Jørgen Sebastian Solli Skogan (21) has received the new self-preparedness advice from the authorities. Photo: Ingvild Vik / news Since 2018, the advice has been to have a warehouse to manage on your own for three days. Now we have to manage for a whole week. This means, among other things, having 20 liters of clean water per person in the household in stock. You should have this at home: 20 liters of clean drinking water per person stored in jugs or bottles. Food that can withstand storage at room temperature. Grill, cooker or storm kitchen. Warm clothes, blankets, duvets and sleeping bags. Matches and candles. Wood if you have a wood stove or fireplace. A gas or kerosene stove intended for indoor use is an alternative to wood burning. Agreement on accommodation if you do not have alternative heating. Flashlights or headlamps that run on batteries, cranks or solar cells. DAB radio that runs on batteries, crank or solar cells. Medicines and first aid equipment. Iodine tablets (applies to children and adults under 40, pregnant and breastfeeding women). Hygiene items such as wet wipes, hand sanitizer, nappies, toilet paper and menstrual products. Batteries and charged battery bank. Some cash and several payment cards. Food and water for pets. List on paper with important telephone numbers such as emergency numbers, emergency room, vet, family, friends and neighbours. Source: Safe everyday life/DSB But there are far more in the older part of the population who have taken the new advice with them, compared to the younger ones. In a survey carried out by Norstat for news, fewer than six out of ten under 30s answer that they have received the new self-preparedness advice from the authorities. At the same time, around nine out of ten over 70s have taken them with them. The survey was carried out a week after the new advice came out. A representative sample of 1,000 pieces is asked. Searching the platforms – These figures correspond quite well with what we know about young people’s media habits, says media researcher Vilde Schanke Sundet at OsloMet. She refers to Kantar Media’s report on media trends among young people, which came out last week. – It shows that the tendencies we have seen for a long time are still there. The use of social media has increased among young people, and they also use such platforms to a large extent to find information, says Sundet. Media researcher Vilde Schanke Sundet at OsloMet Photo: UiO And it is precisely on social media that 17-year-old Yosan Werede in Tromsø has caught the news of the new advice. – They have changed from three to seven days, says Yosan, and adds: – I heard about it on TikTok, but I don’t remember which news source it came from. It is primarily there and on Instagram that she and her friend Abigail Tesfamichael get news. For the most part, they get their information from Norwegian media that are on the social platforms. But other users also occasionally mention news. – It is important to find out if that information is true, so I often go to news, TV 2 or VG to check, says Tesfamichael. – Yes, I agree, there are credible sources you can trust, says Werede. Yosan Werede has learned that the authorities have updated the preparedness advice. Photo: Ingvild Vik / news When not necessarily all Sunde at OsloMet point out that there is a big difference between the media habits of those in their teens and those in their mid-20s. – Those from 14 to 19 use TikTok as the most important place to find news. While those who are a little older use the online newspapers. In recent years, it has become more difficult for traditional media to reach a section of the population – namely the young. – In the past, editorial media have had the advantage of knowing that information coming through them will reach the population, says Sundet. That is no longer the case. At the same time, many are skeptical of TikTok, Meta and other large media platforms. Sundet nevertheless believes that the Norwegian authorities must make use of these with campaigns to reach out to people. – If there is important information that everyone in a country must have, you must use the platforms that you know can reach many people more quickly than the editorial media. What do you do if the power goes out, the water becomes contaminated or you can’t get food for you and your family? Reporter and father of young children Christer Johnsgård checks how things really stand with his own and his neighbours’ preparedness plan: Will do more to reach more The Directorate for Community Safety and Preparedness (DSB) is responsible for the self-preparedness advice for the population. Tore Kamfjord, who is the head of the investigation at DSB, believes that the findings of the investigation are as expected. He is satisfied that so many have, after all, caught on to the advice after such a short time. Tore Kamfjord in DSB. Photo: Privat Going forward, the directorate will make an effort to reach more parts of the population through other channels, says Kamfjord. – Our task is to reach out with this advice to the largest possible part of the population, and not least to get people to follow them. Then we must be present in the channels that the various target groups use. Both Vögele and Skogan in Tromsø have read the news about the preparedness advice through traditional news channels. And Skogan admits that he gets news because of a somewhat rare habit, considering his age. – I watch the news on TV every day at 7 p.m., he says. Emil Johannes Kögeler Vögele (20) got the new advice via traditional media. Photo: Ingvild Vik / news Vögele thinks it is difficult to get information like this if you don’t read the news. – My experience is that you don’t get as much information about this sort of thing on other channels, so you have to follow the news a bit. And perhaps few of us our age do that, he says. 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Fewer young people are prepared for crisis – news Troms and Finnmark
