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Isn't the sacrifice society pays to save human lives too great?
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To think about wet after April 28.“Every week we go through this, costs tens of thousands of extra years of life. “ For example, these are cancer patients who now have to wait for treatment. Or people who become unemployed and who, as a result, have a lower life expectancy.
Criticism of the #kabinetsbeleid is now taboo. That's not weird. Every day RIVM publishes figures on full-flowing intensive departments. And the dead are counted. Figures behind which pain and loss lie. A grim lock on the door to a discussion about whether we are on the right track.
It takes time, but the way we look at the crisis is going to change absolutely, says professor of behavioral models Caspar Chorus of TU Delft. “That's even inevitable. “ The dominant current still consists of 'Kantians', says Chorus. 'That's the school that says that for every human life you have to do anything to save it. A message people like to hear. '
On the other hand, there are 'the utilitarists'. Chorus: 'That's the school that says that every choice you make must take into account the interests of everyone. In the ultimate consequence, that can lead to sacrificing a human life to save ten. That's what armies do. Think D-day, the invasion of Normandy. A very legitimate story, but more difficult. '
But if prosperity falls like this in one fell swoop, it also goes to the detriment of health and life expectancy. '
What kind of country do we live in, that we dare not say this until the damage has become so great that we can no longer get around it? Do we really have to burn €100 billion first and surrender ten years of prosperity to have this discussion? '
'It is important that we do not place human lives on the one hand and capitalism and billions of evaporated stock market value on the other. That is not the economy as a moral system. The economy is people like you and me who try to make money to eat, to live, to send children to school, to buy clothes. '
No mass redundancies have been reported in the Netherlands. But the shopping streets are quiet, restaurants and cafes are empty, school squares and office buildings are extinct. The activity in our country has virtually stopped. The Cabinet announced on Tuesday that these restrictive measures will in any event be in force until 28 April. Possibly even longer. Can we keep that up?
'Many companies are not going to survive. The resistance of the Dutch BV is under great pressure', says foreman Hans Biesheuvel of Entrepreneurship Nederland. From early morning until late at night, he has entrepreneurs on the phone who are in deep trouble. In recent weeks, they were mainly in the control position to get things going like working at home. Now there is a growing awareness that the company they have worked hard to build for years may well be undergoing.
The economy is in intensive care. Millions of jobs are at stake, tens of billions of pension money have already evaporated by collapsed stock exchanges, threatening substantial discounts. The only way to get this patient off the ventilator is to finally end the current intelligent lockdown on April 28 and make it an intelligent open-up. 'In the media, everything is all about ic-beds.
'In the media, everything is all about ic-beds. If you, as a politician, say that the economy is also important, your head goes off. '
Criticism of the #kabinetsbeleid is now taboo. That's not weird. Every day RIVM publishes figures on full-flowing intensive departments. And the dead are counted. Figures behind which pain and loss lie. A grim lock on the door to a discussion about whether we are on the right track.
It takes time, but the way we look at the crisis is going to change absolutely, says professor of behavioral models Caspar Chorus of TU Delft. “That's even inevitable. “ The dominant current still consists of 'Kantians', says Chorus. 'That's the school that says that for every human life you have to do anything to save it. A message people like to hear. '
On the other hand, there are 'the utilitarists'. Chorus: 'That's the school that says that every choice you make must take into account the interests of everyone. In the ultimate consequence, that can lead to sacrificing a human life to save ten. That's what armies do. Think D-day, the invasion of Normandy. A very legitimate story, but more difficult. '
But if prosperity falls like this in one fell swoop, it also goes to the detriment of health and life expectancy. '
What kind of country do we live in, that we dare not say this until the damage has become so great that we can no longer get around it? Do we really have to burn €100 billion first and surrender ten years of prosperity to have this discussion? '
'It is important that we do not place human lives on the one hand and capitalism and billions of evaporated stock market value on the other. That is not the economy as a moral system. The economy is people like you and me who try to make money to eat, to live, to send children to school, to buy clothes. '
No mass redundancies have been reported in the Netherlands. But the shopping streets are quiet, restaurants and cafes are empty, school squares and office buildings are extinct. The activity in our country has virtually stopped. The Cabinet announced on Tuesday that these restrictive measures will in any event be in force until 28 April. Possibly even longer. Can we keep that up?
'Many companies are not going to survive. The resistance of the Dutch BV is under great pressure', says foreman Hans Biesheuvel of Entrepreneurship Nederland. From early morning until late at night, he has entrepreneurs on the phone who are in deep trouble. In recent weeks, they were mainly in the control position to get things going like working at home. Now there is a growing awareness that the company they have worked hard to build for years may well be undergoing.
The economy is in intensive care. Millions of jobs are at stake, tens of billions of pension money have already evaporated by collapsed stock exchanges, threatening substantial discounts. The only way to get this patient off the ventilator is to finally end the current intelligent lockdown on April 28 and make it an intelligent open-up. 'In the media, everything is all about ic-beds.
'In the media, everything is all about ic-beds. If you, as a politician, say that the economy is also important, your head goes off. '
Source: Fd.nl
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