The Dutch flock to the near abroad in order to enjoy a freedom that they are no longer awarded in the neighborhood. A vanguard of this mass has left head over heels for Austria. It wants to get there before the new quarantine rules come into effect, with which the government is trying to put omikron's foot down there. Those who know how to check in before Friday are free of these new measures. At least that's what those involved.

It's all a matter of mentality. Where escape is possible, that opportunity is seized with both hands.

This shows a dichotomy that splits our people in half with, on the one hand, the citizens who follow the rules according to letter and spirit and, on the other, the people who do believe it. They are looking for the limits of the law. They will not stick to the maximum number of visitors at Christmas, because they know that this is urgent advice and not an order. Call it a kind of silent sabotage.

Marion Koopmans, the Netherlands most famous virologist. A pandemic has been happening over the years, and part of that development is not predictable. How does a pandemic work in the long term. And what about the relationship between policy in the Netherlands and the rest of the world. And then Omikron enacted.


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