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Coronavirus Second Wave Is Coming – Understand what it’s about and prepare

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A Norwegian novelist says the real second wave won’t be the virus — it’ll be the power grab that follows it.

In an early May 2020 video titled “Coronavirus Second Wave Is Coming – Understand what it’s about and prepare,” Norwegian novelist and bushcraft commentator Bjørn Andreas Bull-Hansen turns the second-wave conversation on its head. Rather than walking through case curves or vaccine timelines, he argues the coming months matter less for what COVID-19 does to bodies and more for what governments will do to citizens in its name. His warning is blunt: the virus itself, he says, will likely end up being the smaller of the two threats.

• Bull-Hansen frames the anticipated “second wave” as primarily a political and societal event, not a medical one.
• He warns that governments will use fear of renewed outbreaks to justify expanded surveillance, tighter social controls, and stricter enforcement of compliance.
• His advice centers on self-reliance and practical resilience — preparing economically and personally for authoritarian overreach, not just for renewed infection.

The Argument Behind the Warning

Bull-Hansen’s case rests on a simple observation about how the first wave of lockdowns unfolded across Europe and North America in the spring of 2020: emergency powers, once granted, rarely shrink back to their original size. He points to the pattern already visible by early May — stay-at-home orders, movement restrictions, and enforcement measures that expanded well beyond the initial justification of “flattening the curve.” Michigan’s capitol had already seen residents flood the building to protest Governor Whitmer’s stay-at-home order, and several states were tightening restrictions again even as case counts fluctuated — evidence, in his telling, of a pattern that would only accelerate once a second spike gave officials fresh justification.

His concern isn’t that health authorities are lying about the virus’s danger. It’s that the emergency framing itself becomes a permanent tool once it proves effective, and that a second wave — real or anticipated — hands governments a second opportunity to normalize measures that would never have been accepted under ordinary circumstances.

Covid-19 will likely be the least of our problems.

Surveillance, Compliance, and the Machinery of Control

The heart of Bull-Hansen’s commentary is a warning about the tools built during the first wave — contact tracing apps, movement monitoring, checkpoint-style enforcement — becoming permanent fixtures rather than temporary emergency measures. He argues that once populations have been trained to accept these intrusions under crisis conditions, rolling them back becomes politically difficult, regardless of how the outbreak curve actually behaves. A renewed spike, in his view, is the mechanism by which that infrastructure gets locked in rather than dismantled.

He also flags the psychological dimension: fear, once activated, is a durable political resource. A population frightened by a first wave doesn’t need much convincing to accept new restrictions during a second one, even if the restrictions themselves have little demonstrated effect on transmission. That dynamic, he suggests, is precisely what officials will lean on.

Preparing for the Wrong Emergency

Where most public-health messaging in early May 2020 focused on hand-washing, mask-wearing, and stockpiling supplies, Bull-Hansen’s advice is oriented toward a different kind of resilience. He tells viewers to build economic independence, reduce reliance on centralized systems, and be ready to push back against bureaucratic overreach — treating the coming months as a test of civil liberties rather than simply a test of hospital capacity. It’s a framing that puts him closer to the skepticism voiced elsewhere about how officials like Dr. Fauci and state governments were handling messaging and funding around the outbreak than to mainstream pandemic-preparedness content.

He’s careful not to dismiss the virus outright — he acknowledges COVID-19 is real and dangerous. His point is one of priority: physical supplies matter, but so does watching what new powers get written into law while the public is distracted by case counts, and being prepared to resist those powers once the emergency that justified them has passed.

Bull-Hansen doesn’t offer a prediction for when any second wave might peak, and he’s upfront that his commentary is about mindset rather than epidemiology. What he does leave viewers with is a checklist that has nothing to do with masks or ventilators — cut dependency, question the next round of restrictions before accepting them, and don’t assume the rules that get imposed this time will disappear once the numbers come back down.