2022 will be the year Darwin would love to live and see
🙁
Sadly, many Dutch people believe that Covid can ONLY hurt people that are in the risk group.
This is in part due to several statements our government and scientists have made in the past 2 years.
Time and time again, they have chosen to downplay the risks, in order to protect the economy.
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People have been told to get vaccinated to protect the vulnerable.
This sounds fine, until you realize that it creates the image of the virus not being dangerous to the young and healthy.
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This is reflected in the behavior of a lot of people.
Yes, a significant portion of the population is vaccinated, but the virus is still spreading like wildfire.
In other countries, an advise to wear facemasks is enough for 90% of the people.
Here it needs to be manditory before people wear them.
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Most people follow the rules, but only barely.
There is a strong advise to work from home, but its just an advise so people still go to their offices.
There is a restriction on the nr of people you can have visit per day. So they meet up with 7 different (small) groups over a week time.
Face masks are obligatory in public transport. So the second people get off the bus and walk into a bussy shopping street, they take the mask off.
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Young people especially think that the virus isnt dangerous to them, but they do the bare minimum to stay within the restrictions.
I’m 100% sure that if you interview someone who went to such a “covid party” they’ll say that it’s not forbidden to get yourself infected intentionally, so they did nothing wrong.
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I used to be quite proud to be Dutch…
If I didn’t know it’s mostly tourists going to coffee shops, I’d say this would be a good time to lay off the herb because clearly that thing is laced.
if you’re very young and healthy the benefits of vaccination over natural infection aren’t, like, astronomical. and the immunity gained from natural infection is more robust and long-lasting than vaccination, too. so, yeah, i wouldn’t do it, but it’s not like it’s beyond the pale based on available evidence.
Well, that’s what you get with 2G. You create an incentive for people to get infected, as that provides you with freedom. I think the only way out of this is 1G: you get access to all these places if you’re vaccinated or cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
I liked it better when we were known as the bicycle people with tulips, cheese, windmills, dikes, drugs, and gay marriage. This recent image of post-truth reckless nutjobs who torch city centers to convey disagreement isn’t what we need for good PR.
Part of the problem is that a lot of people want to go skiing this winter and (I think austria) has the booster shot as a requirement to get in. In the Netherlands you can’t get the boostershot so people could go with getting a declaration of recovery instead of a booster shot.
I just hope they do stay in quarantaine when doing this
Always knew the Dutch were a bunch of dummies
I really don’t care if these idiots die but I do care that they will take up valuable hospital space.
Are you fucking kidding me… First time i hear about this. How dense have we become?
Honestly I’m done thinking of them as just misinformed people. I hope they contract it, don’t go to the hospital “because it is just a cold” and suffer the consequences silently in their home.
Be sure to stock up on food though, because I don’t want you outside for the next month or two while you either get over it or die.
Where can we find resources on natural immunity?
All hail Nurgle.
Natural selection.
Based. I would rather get c0vid than v@ccine. I mean,that is something i would say if a didnt get it,it was not much worse than common flu.
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2022 will be the year Darwin would love to live and see
🙁
Sadly, many Dutch people believe that Covid can ONLY hurt people that are in the risk group.
This is in part due to several statements our government and scientists have made in the past 2 years.
Time and time again, they have chosen to downplay the risks, in order to protect the economy.
​
People have been told to get vaccinated to protect the vulnerable.
This sounds fine, until you realize that it creates the image of the virus not being dangerous to the young and healthy.
​
This is reflected in the behavior of a lot of people.
Yes, a significant portion of the population is vaccinated, but the virus is still spreading like wildfire.
In other countries, an advise to wear facemasks is enough for 90% of the people.
Here it needs to be manditory before people wear them.
​
Most people follow the rules, but only barely.
There is a strong advise to work from home, but its just an advise so people still go to their offices.
There is a restriction on the nr of people you can have visit per day. So they meet up with 7 different (small) groups over a week time.
Face masks are obligatory in public transport. So the second people get off the bus and walk into a bussy shopping street, they take the mask off.
​
Young people especially think that the virus isnt dangerous to them, but they do the bare minimum to stay within the restrictions.
I’m 100% sure that if you interview someone who went to such a “covid party” they’ll say that it’s not forbidden to get yourself infected intentionally, so they did nothing wrong.
​
I used to be quite proud to be Dutch…
If I didn’t know it’s mostly tourists going to coffee shops, I’d say this would be a good time to lay off the herb because clearly that thing is laced.
if you’re very young and healthy the benefits of vaccination over natural infection aren’t, like, astronomical. and the immunity gained from natural infection is more robust and long-lasting than vaccination, too. so, yeah, i wouldn’t do it, but it’s not like it’s beyond the pale based on available evidence.
Well, that’s what you get with 2G. You create an incentive for people to get infected, as that provides you with freedom. I think the only way out of this is 1G: you get access to all these places if you’re vaccinated or cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
I liked it better when we were known as the bicycle people with tulips, cheese, windmills, dikes, drugs, and gay marriage. This recent image of post-truth reckless nutjobs who torch city centers to convey disagreement isn’t what we need for good PR.
Part of the problem is that a lot of people want to go skiing this winter and (I think austria) has the booster shot as a requirement to get in. In the Netherlands you can’t get the boostershot so people could go with getting a declaration of recovery instead of a booster shot.
I just hope they do stay in quarantaine when doing this
Always knew the Dutch were a bunch of dummies
I really don’t care if these idiots die but I do care that they will take up valuable hospital space.
Are you fucking kidding me… First time i hear about this. How dense have we become?
Honestly I’m done thinking of them as just misinformed people. I hope they contract it, don’t go to the hospital “because it is just a cold” and suffer the consequences silently in their home.
Be sure to stock up on food though, because I don’t want you outside for the next month or two while you either get over it or die.
Where can we find resources on natural immunity?
All hail Nurgle.
Natural selection.
Based. I would rather get c0vid than v@ccine. I mean,that is something i would say if a didnt get it,it was not much worse than common flu.