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It is downright rude to care staff and next of kin to deny corona
Barely three months ago, when the coronavirus was driving through our country with full force, most people were sitting at home shaking, afraid of getting infected on their own. That's completely changed. Flexibility was announced and the society, as good and as evil as it succeeds, tries to get back to life. Synchronously with this development, there has been room for citizens to question public policy. That is a good development.
Nobody is infallible and, of course, the ministers have made mistakes, which has already been more or less acknowledged by the RIVM disease control agent Aura Timen, who recently admitted in an interview that she had underestimated the virus.
Yet critics go a step further; not only do they denounce the crisis management of the government but spread more and more successfully the mare that the virus would not exist at all, or at least equals 'an ordinary flu'.
Anyone who puts others at risk by his own behaviour is not part of a solution, but is part of the problem.
It's amazing they get so much support. We have all seen that hospitals were in danger of being flooded with corona patients and that thousands of healthcare workers have fought against the black scenario of being unable to provide assistance. In several other countries, sometimes at regional level, there is already a second wave, which means that lockdowns have been declared again in these places.
A little criticism of established orders, such as politics and the media, is really not wrong at all, and that makes us all better. But it is downright rude to care staff and relatives to deny corona. On the radio, professor of health communication Bas van den Putte said: 'People who are very convinced of something are difficult to get a different opinion with arguments. (...) These people constantly take information that confirms what they agree with. '
Of which deed. We must always listen to these sounds. But if public health is endangered by them, it is the duty of bystanders to name it, without fear of (digital) reprisals.
We live in a country where we can endlessly discuss all kinds of subjects, a result of absolute prosperity. But not everything is food for debate. Anyone who, by means of his own behaviour, puts others at risk is not part of a solution, but is part of the problem.
Column Ozcan Akyol
Barely three months ago, when the coronavirus was driving through our country with full force, most people were sitting at home shaking, afraid of getting infected on their own. That's completely changed. Flexibility was announced and the society, as good and as evil as it succeeds, tries to get back to life. Synchronously with this development, there has been room for citizens to question public policy. That is a good development.
Nobody is infallible and, of course, the ministers have made mistakes, which has already been more or less acknowledged by the RIVM disease control agent Aura Timen, who recently admitted in an interview that she had underestimated the virus.
Yet critics go a step further; not only do they denounce the crisis management of the government but spread more and more successfully the mare that the virus would not exist at all, or at least equals 'an ordinary flu'.
Anyone who puts others at risk by his own behaviour is not part of a solution, but is part of the problem.
It's amazing they get so much support. We have all seen that hospitals were in danger of being flooded with corona patients and that thousands of healthcare workers have fought against the black scenario of being unable to provide assistance. In several other countries, sometimes at regional level, there is already a second wave, which means that lockdowns have been declared again in these places.
A little criticism of established orders, such as politics and the media, is really not wrong at all, and that makes us all better. But it is downright rude to care staff and relatives to deny corona. On the radio, professor of health communication Bas van den Putte said: 'People who are very convinced of something are difficult to get a different opinion with arguments. (...) These people constantly take information that confirms what they agree with. '
Of which deed. We must always listen to these sounds. But if public health is endangered by them, it is the duty of bystanders to name it, without fear of (digital) reprisals.
We live in a country where we can endlessly discuss all kinds of subjects, a result of absolute prosperity. But not everything is food for debate. Anyone who, by means of his own behaviour, puts others at risk is not part of a solution, but is part of the problem.
Column Ozcan Akyol
#Viruswaanzinnigen demonstrate in the wrong building against ignorance
The action group Virus Madness demonstrated on Monday in front of several news editors against the coverage of the coronavirus. According to the activists, citizens are not well informed by the media. In Rotterdam, the group gathered for a building of the AD. At least where the AD was once. The paper's been gone for eight years.
The action group Virus Madness demonstrated on Monday in front of several news editors against the coverage of the coronavirus. According to the activists, citizens are not well informed by the media. In Rotterdam, the group gathered for a building of the AD. At least where the AD was once. The paper's been gone for eight years.
In a live stream on Facebook, Willem Engel, foreman of Virus Madness and one of the activists in Rotterdam, amazes himself that there is a lot of police present.That might be right. The building where the AD once housed now houses the Police Services Centre.
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