In the Netherlands, even after a month of decreasing dayly infections, the lockdown was aggravated to minimize the number of infected people before the more infectious variants become dominant.
from the web site of the public broadcasting service (NOS), based on a consultation with the head modeller of the national institute for public health (RIVM).
Translation guide:
Title: How the British corona variant could become dominant
“klassieke” = classic
“Britse”= British
The real problem being of course, if there is a lot of contact between two species where one of them often carries a virus, it’s bound to jump from one species to the other after mutating to make humans more susceptible to the virus. In most developed countries, due to proper hygiene such contacts are kept at a minimum. Hence dangerous mutations are very rare here.
Oh wait, I’m talking like it’s January 2020, I mean:
The real problem being of course, if there is a lot of contact between people, where a large part of them carries a virus, it’s bound to spread through the population faster after mutating to make humans more susceptible to the virus. In most developed countries, due to the spread of fake news people are quite bad at just sitting at home to stop the virus from multiplying. Thus dangerous mutations are to be expected here.
Which begs the question, can someone be ill from both strains at the same time? I do not see why not, but it really makes you wonder what are the side-effects of that.
Also there are satirical videos made about it. Thie next one is about the town Urk (a former island with a very religious conservative population and issues with drugs and rioting) where a corona testing location was set on fire by rioters: The URK Dutch Anarchy Demonstratie 24/01/2021 - YouTube
Should be said, that protests of any kind are almost always allowed in the Netherlands as long as they are registered beforehand, peaceful and follow the corona restrictions. These protest were neither of those: organised on the fly, attracted rioters and did not adhere to social distancing / curfew.
I meant it as in, in the Netherlands our government cannot refuse to register a protest if it is peaceful, and obeys the law (which specifically states that nonviolent protest is allowed).
Indeed, some police were chased by rioters. The rioters are throwing stones and fireworks at the police. In the worse cases, the riot police responds by using a water cannon to disperse the rioters: ME veegt pleinen in Amsterdam en Eindhoven leeg | NU.nl
I find curfews weird. As if coronavirus is more likely to get you at night. You’d think it’s better for people to do their business at night, if they can, when there’re fewer people around.
