Living in pandemic NL is bizarre and soul-crushing. We pay an obscene amount of taxes but have no safe access to schools, hospitals/clinics, grocery stores, or parks. Even getting vaccinated is a serious transmission risk when centers ask people to remove their masks post-shot 🧵
The November peak was not from #omicron — it was from #delta. A “lockdown” and school closure was to prevent the hospitals from collapsing. Our #omicron peak will happen the moment they soon open schools with no mitigations upon societal pressure 🧵2
We’re all expected to get infected and re-infected with this neurotrophic virus. For those who become permanently disabled or die, it’s “helaas pindakaas”. We’re all on our own. This isn’t solidarity or a social democracy but we’re still expected to pay up to live here. 🧵3
The most aggravating aspect of being a parent in the NL is that they’ve criminalized keeping children safe at home, offering no distance learning and enforcing compulsory attendance. 2/3 of children have already been infected with this Class A virus. Many re-infected. 🧵4
Rutte’s mass infection policy is overwhelmingly supported by the public who refuse to be inconvenienced by the deaths and long-term disability of their family, friends and neighbors. They refuse to comprehend the societal and economical implications of “to each their own”. 🧵5
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