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In his Address to the Nation on Monday:
Kijk live mee met de toespraak van minister-president Rutte over de stand van zaken rond het #coronavirus ⬇ [_link]— Mark Rutte (@MinPres) March 16, 2020
Kijk live mee met de toespraak van minister-president Rutte over de stand van zaken rond het #coronavirus ⬇ [_link]
That is what the experts are telling us now. And what they also tell us is that, pending a vaccine or medicine, we can slow down the spread of the virus while at the same time building group immunity in a controlled way.
I have to explain that.
Those who have had the virus are usually immune afterwards. Just like in the old days with measles. The larger the group that is immune, the less chance that the virus will jump to vulnerable elderly people and people with poor health. With group immunity you build, as it were, a protective wall around them.
That is the principle. But we have to realize that it can take months or even longer to build up group immunity and during that time we need to shield people who are at greater risk as much as possible.
Asscher (PvdA) legt vinger op zere plek: "Na de toespraak van Rutte is het probleem ontstaan dat groepsimmuniteit het doel is. Dat was de bedoeling niet, maar zo is het wel overgekomen." #coronadebat— Peter Winterman (@WintermanAD) March 18, 2020
Asscher (PvdA) legt vinger op zere plek: "Na de toespraak van Rutte is het probleem ontstaan dat groepsimmuniteit het doel is. Dat was de bedoeling niet, maar zo is het wel overgekomen." #coronadebat
○ Jaap van Dissel appointed as Director of the RIVM Centre for Infectious Disease Control
All his tweets in a timeline ... from outbreak in China from January 21 onwards. Ill prepared and ill informed of the facts. Rutte claims today he was following the lead from WHO ... another BIG lie as I have written just a few days ago!
○ Boris Johnson's Herd Immunity Debacle, Mark Rutte follows suite
○ The Coronovirus in tweets from RIVM - a timeline | Elseviers |
"The overarching aim of Kremlin disinformation is to aggravate the public health crisis in Western countries...in line with the Kremlin's broader strategy of attempting to subvert European societies," the document produced by the EU's foreign policy arm, the European External Action Service, said.
As Trump pivots to coronavirus crisis mode, let's not forget the months of downplaying and denial. pic.twitter.com/gH1xZAHXm5— The Recount (@therecount) March 17, 2020
As Trump pivots to coronavirus crisis mode, let's not forget the months of downplaying and denial. pic.twitter.com/gH1xZAHXm5
Don't criticize Trump -- we need him, Dutch prime minister says @CNBC [_link] Hè #markrutte? @MinisterRutte #ministerpresident— Hillem (@hillempje) January 28, 2019
Don't criticize Trump -- we need him, Dutch prime minister says @CNBC [_link] Hè #markrutte? @MinisterRutte #ministerpresident
The larger the group that is immune, the less chance that the virus will jump to vulnerable elderly people and people with poor health.
Anecdotal evidence is enough to conclusively demonstrate the sheer insanity of this approach.
I just got off the phone with a youg family member in the UK. Gig economy, two zero-hours contracts. She lives in a household of four, all in the same demographic. ALL of them work in close contact with vulnerable people.
One is an optometrist. He has a lot of elderly clients. None will die if they don't get new glasses, but his employer can't afford to close down. One of his colleagues is off work with suspected coronavirus.
Do I need to go on? It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
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