Netherlands: All-time record number of coronavirus cases per day, hospital admissions ‘rising fast’ dutchnews.nl/news/2021/11/r…
This was the Dutch justice minister in July, singing a little song to wave goodbye to face masks forever
Generally the policy of the Dutch government on covid has been baffling, either being way too optimistic when things were looking up, planning to lift restrictions way ahead of time and then lifting them when infections were rising again.
The messaging has been even worse, the whole elite, interest groups (and universities!) presenting protection measure as if they were just an annoyance disturbing their business and not something that actually had a purpose (protection lives and the healthcare system).
How do they expect people to comply if that is the message? Sudden reversals ("bye bye face masks!" followed by "hello lockdown!") also didn't help credibility. People simply don't take this seriously anymore.
Now we're getting messages from school and daycare about kids testing positive and the advice of the local health office is invariably to "stay alert" (rather than quarantines etc.). School said until recently that they didn't have national guidelines on what to do.
Meanwhile nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/240562… 
It's really all going very well.
https://twitter.com/GordonDarroch/status/1460603779812843520?s=20
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