Lord Stimperor posted:This country was faced with killing off its old and immunocompromised and just shrugged its shoulders, never thinking about it again. I used to be proud of our forward-thinking approach to euthanasia. Now I'm a lot more cynical about the reasons behind it. Cheaper to kill off people when they're done.
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Osmosisch posted:I used to be proud of our forward-thinking approach to euthanasia. Now I'm a lot more cynical about the reasons behind it. Cheaper to kill off people when they're done. Hard same. I can't ignore that it's the neoliberal parties most heavily pushing for it. The same parties that keep defunding elder care. I think we should absolutely have euthanasia as it would be an achievement in human rights, dignity and self-determination. I am not sure we should have euthanasia in a capitalist context, as it would take all those things and twist them to fit economic logic. Commodifying not just human beings, but every individual year of their lives.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 08:48 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Did you miss when a bus driver was beaten to death because he told people they had to wear masks to climb aboard? Yes I did. That’s unbelievable. I thought stuff like that was only happening in the Americas.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 08:58 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Unless you are spending long periods of time within enclosed spaces (eg: public transport) wearing a mask is less effective than just keeping your distance from people, since coronavirus doesn't seem to spread off short contacts. This is little evidence of this, even though it's clear that prolonged exposure increases risk of infection. There have been numerous documented cases of infection from relatively brief contact. Some public health authorities are downplaying the risk of infection from short contacts - in Denmark it's being used as an excuse for staff not wearing PPE around vulnerable individuals if the contact is less than X minutes (can't remember if it's 5, 10 or 15). But I think this is yet another case of opportunistic optimism. Keeping in mind the studies showing airborne transmission being possible from suspended virions in poorly ventilated enclosed spaces, keeping your distance is not necessarily sufficient. Especially if said distance is less than 2 metres. Wearing a mask in any kind of public/crowded enclosed space is a good idea. You can rarely completely avoid passing in close proximity of other people temporarily (e.g. doorways, aisles, corridors). In particular because of the effect it has on infected individuals. Avoiding the accumulation of suspended virions should be a top-priority. Reducing unnecessary occupancy of enclosed spaces (by capping occupancy counts and preventing group shopping) is a good way to reduce the risk of transmission spiraling out of control and creating a situation where a lockdown/shutdown is required. The above-mentioned transmission characteristics is also a reason that I think in-door nightclubs and bars (possibly other similar businesses) simply aren't feasible until the pandemic is properly over. Adapting to a situation where such activity needs to happen outdoors is better than cycling between shutdown and reopening. But too many politicians and health officials are afraid of accepting semi-permanent transmission reduction measures because of the impact on the tourism/leisure economy. Which is unfortunate, because new full outbreaks are going to have a much higher overall economic cost for society than limiting the damage to specific sectors. It's perfectly viable to contain while having society function relatively normally - but it does require use of masks, temporary shutdown of certain businesses and encouraging use of working/studying from home. It's frustrating to witness this stubborn insistence on return to full normalcy. We'll see after the round of new full outbreaks if attitudes change, or whether we need several outbreaks before the lesson is learned - because this is not just a second wave before it's all over.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 11:11 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Did you miss when a bus driver was beaten to death because he told people they had to wear masks to climb aboard? Yes. What the gently caress?
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 12:21 |
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Phlegmish posted:Yes. What the gently caress? A bus driver in Bayonne (in southwest France) refused to let a man board his bus because he wasn't wearing a mask. The driver also told four passengers who weren't wearing masks to get off his bus. Things got heated to the point that those passengers ganged up on the driver. He was badly hurt in the head and he was taken to a hospital but he was already brain-dead by then.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 12:38 |
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Good job brutally murdering a man just doing his job, and giving the RN a nice little boost in the region on top! I hope it's life.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 13:04 |
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Kassad posted:A bus driver in Bayonne (in southwest France) refused to let a man board his bus because he wasn't wearing a mask. The driver also told four passengers who weren't wearing masks to get off his bus. Things got heated to the point that those passengers ganged up on the driver. He was badly hurt in the head and he was taken to a hospital but he was already brain-dead by then. Wasn't there also a lack of willingness to pay for tickets involved? Not that this makes the murder any less appalling and tragic, but from I've read this wasn't so much about anti-mask sentiment, as it was about criminal thugs who acted with extreme violence due to being challenged regarding their actions and behavior in general. For some absurd reason, bus drivers and firefighters are often targeted by violent thugs. Maybe it's because they are uniformed and sort of in position of authority. I think that particular tragedy should taken as a result of socio-economic and criminal problems, rather than anti-mask sentiment.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 13:09 |
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Yeah it's the same poo poo as always, probably happens at least once a week somewhere. Sometimes they go a little too far and the target ends up dead instead of 'just' beaten up. e: this got me paying more attention to the news, and I found this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53500449 lol good job taking back control, and good luck with your Special Relationship. Americans can murder British citizens and get away with it. e2: I have no problem with the UK but I can and will be dunking on them as Brexit is becoming even more hilarious as time goes by, even when we thought it wasn't possible Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Jul 22, 2020 |
# ? Jul 22, 2020 13:16 |
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i guess this is the return to the VOC mentality that Rutte so desperately wanted, letting other people die so that the netherlands can get even richer.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 15:25 |
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It was Balkenende who famously appealed to the VOC mentality. Both Rutte and Balkenende hold history degrees from Leiden university.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 15:38 |
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Orange Devil posted:It was Balkenende who famously appealed to the VOC mentality. The University of Suffering? How apt.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 15:44 |
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oliwan posted:i guess this is the return to the VOC mentality that Rutte so desperately wanted, letting other people die so that the netherlands can get even richer. Not other people, poor people that no one wants to imagine they're part of
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:01 |
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Libluini posted:The University of Suffering? How apt. Sadly leiden would translate to lead in this instance. They're both still absolute scumbags though, because in my opinion Balkenende started this poo poo.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:01 |
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I wanted to make a joke about the Dutch confronting their history of racism and colonialism but then I remembered how I came across a photoshoot with models dressing up as American natives and thought ah gently caress it, I don't wanna anymore
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:03 |
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Lord Stimperor posted:I wanted to make a joke about the Dutch confronting their history of racism and colonialism The mere idea of this ever happening is already a joke in and of itself.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:34 |
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Orange Devil posted:It was Balkenende who famously appealed to the VOC mentality. Well yes Balkenende started it, but Rutte also specifically appealed to the Dutch to "start a new Golden Age" From: Wat Rutte wil: nieuwe Gouden Eeuw, nieuwe mensenhandel quote:Toen het Amsterdams museum de term ‘Gouden Eeuw’ besloot niet meer te gebruiken, leidde dat tot grote verontwaardiging. Hoe durven jullie onze trots zo te beledigen?!
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:48 |
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Could you imagine how much growth we'd have to go through as a country to at least acknowledge that our ancestors were pieces of poo poo who didn't care about what they did as long as they made money? Exploitation of indigenous people and slavery were only the tip of the iceberg. As long as we conflate our country and who we are now with those racist slave traders and the V.O.C. dutch people will keep throwing hissy fits about Zwarte Piet because to do otherwise would be to acknowledge we need to change and be better.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 16:58 |
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An insane mind posted:Sadly leiden would translate to lead in this instance. They're both still absolute scumbags though, because in my opinion Balkenende started this poo poo. Heh, interesting. "Leiden" literally means suffering in German. We have a similar word that's pronounced differently, "leiten", which means something like "to lead". (A "Leitung" is a pipe which leads to somewhere, for example, or a wire. But it can also mean the leadership of an organization.) Strange how close and yet so far our languages can be.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 19:25 |
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Libluini posted:Heh, interesting. "Leiden" literally means suffering in German. We have a similar word that's pronounced differently, "leiten", which means something like "to lead". Leiden is leading. Lijden is suffering. They're pronounced the same way.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 19:30 |
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As far as I know it comes from Old Dutch 'leithon', by the waters. Like 70% of all places in the Netherlands derive from some form of a water related word, and there were many such words.
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# ? Jul 22, 2020 21:59 |
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We are the Inuit of water but more racist. e-took out the racist word. An insane mind fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Jul 23, 2020 |
# ? Jul 22, 2020 23:07 |
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Interesting analysis by Sandbu in the FT - I think his positivity over federalism in the long run (whatever you think about that personally) is probably correct, but it's still decades off and at the current state I don't know whether the EU has that time before poo poo goes bang. quote:EU crosses the Rubicon with its emergency recovery fund
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 09:12 |
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Balkenende should've been prosecuted for war crimes for supporting the Iraq invasion, but in its infinite wisdom my country decided not to even investigate the political decision making process which lead to that decision. Making us somehow worse than the UK, which did investigate, but then obviously didn't prosecute anyone.An insane mind posted:We are the eskimos of water but more racist. Case in point: eskimo is a racist word, the word you're looking for is Inuit and/or Yupik. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Jul 23, 2020 |
# ? Jul 23, 2020 11:20 |
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(Dutch original + my HTML translation) This man is the head of the Dutch crisis council. He thinks people wearing masks will lead to them flouting the 1.5m social distancing mandate...which people already do anyway. Please, I just want my country to be healthy again.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 12:49 |
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lol are people just little babbies or what, I've had serious (self-inflicted) breathing issues in the past and I still don't think it's a big deal to have to wear a mask for 20 minutes I just ordered a custom one, if you see a nerd on the street with a punk's not dead mask, it's probably me.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:07 |
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I'm always saddened when you meet foreigners who go 'oh you're Dutch, bastion of cool liberalism" and you have to explain that the country took a hard-right turn and is a shithole. Very happy to live in different rightwing shitholes at the moment.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:13 |
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Junior G-man posted:Interesting analysis by Sandbu in the FT - I think his positivity over federalism in the long run (whatever you think about that personally) is probably correct, but it's still decades off and at the current state I don't know whether the EU has that time before poo poo goes bang. It's not puzzling at all, their commitment to frugality is paper thin and mostly exists to pretend their short term FYGMism is something more than short term FYGMism.
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Junior G-man posted:I'm always saddened when you meet foreigners who go 'oh you're Dutch, bastion of cool liberalism" and you have to explain that the country took a hard-right turn and is a shithole. They were never a bastion of 'liberalism' and tolerance unless you count making GBS threads on the street while doing drugs, and vulgarity in general, which they've just been doing as an act of defiance towards their metaphorical Calvinist dad since the 1960's. Actually now that I think about it, it makes sense that Americans would view it that way
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:20 |
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Phlegmish posted:They were never a bastion of 'liberalism' and tolerance unless you count making GBS threads on the street while doing drugs, and vulgarity in general, which they've just been doing as an act of defiance towards their metaphorical Calvinist dad since the 1960's. Actually now that I think about it, it makes sense that Americans would view it that way this is true but doesn't paint the whole picture, because holland was also always a front runner when it came to progressive social policies such as gay marriage, euthanasia, abortion and decriminalization of drugs. the same goes for social security, worker's rights and free healthcare. sadly most of this has been systematically eroded during the last 12 years or so. it has always been racist though.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:30 |
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That's true too, just being facetious because the Dutch always make me feel like a repressed, inhibited bourgeois in comparison, and I kind of resent that feeling.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:33 |
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Well, at least it's perfectly clear why people keep confusing you with us Danes and vice versa, beyond the horrible garbled noises we both consider language.
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Orange Devil posted:Case in point: eskimo is a racist word, the word you're looking for is Inuit and/or Yupik. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:56 |
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JordanKai posted:
Remember when several weeks into the pandemic RIVM reported that they had underestimated the Covid hospital stay by a factor of 2 or 3 because apparently all the information collected in other countries was not taken into consideration Remember when Rutte told the public That in case their employer wouldn't let them social distance to talk to their boss like grown ups, surely that would convince them
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 13:59 |
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Lord Stimperor posted:Remember when several weeks into the pandemic RIVM reported that they had underestimated the Covid hospital stay by a factor of 2 or 3 because apparently all the information collected in other countries was not taken into consideration Yeah, see, this is why you have to be sceptical when comparing non-standardized statistics, and why for once I'm defending Belgium which has fairly reliable numbers. Yes, it did gently caress up with its policy on residential care centers, but also that is actually reflected in the statistics and they didn't go 'dying is just what olds do lol'. Journalists have always been notorious for not understanding methodology, but in this case they're basically rewarding governments that are actively manipulating the numbers to make themselves look more favorable, Soviet-style. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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oliwan posted:most of this has been systematically eroded during the last 12 years or so. Try since the 70s. Basically the brief progressive period is the anomaly, not the fygm liberalism.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 14:12 |
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Well gently caress, I meant Inuit but wanted my dumb joke out there so quickly I was a dumb racist. I feel so stupid. Also yeah, we had a purple (it was called purple right) cabinet for the longest time that amounted to a left right and centrist party working together to slowly erode progressivism.
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# ? Jul 23, 2020 14:47 |
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It's incredible how inwards the Netherlands is as a culture. During the initial covid wave and ensuing crisis, Dutch experts just flat out did not consider what was (and had been) happening abroad. It felt repeatedly like everything had to be observed, studied and invented in the Netherlands by Dutch people or otherwise it couldn't be true to both our experts and our government. And not like Dutch journalists would ask any questions about "hey so if like 80% of the rest of Europe is choosing for this different approach then how come all their experts are coming to different conclusions than ours?" So you see this again now, while the vast majority of European countries have made masks in public spaces mandatory and have been living like this for months now, Dutch experts have concluded that making masks mandatory in public spaces is not realistic, actually. So too bad rest of Europe, but your lived experience isn't realistic enough for us. The only foreign countries Dutch journalists and politicians are actually aware of are the United States and the United Kingdom, and it shows. Conversely in Dutch politics it has been true for decades now that if you propose to do something because another country has done it and it works well there you will be met with incredible skepticism. But if you propose to do something because the US has done it you have an acceptable argument... You don't even have to demonstrate that the results in the US have been posititive, just, the US did this = good argument. Also yeah, from all the European countries, Belgium from very early on in the crisis up until today has had the most reliable reported statistics by far. The entire Dutch response, modelling and statistics completely ignored everything that went on in care homes for example. Which means our actual deaths (and thus likely also infections etc) were twice the official numbers. A proper evaluation of the government decsision making process is, as far as I'm aware, still not underway, but it looks very, very much like the Netherlands was caught completely unprepared, didn't have even remotely enough PPE, decided to use all the PPE purely for medical staff, and due to the decentralization in the Dutch healthcare sector (gotta privatize don'tcha know?) care homes and their staff (who are nurses for fucks sake) were not considered medical facilities and medical staff. So they got ignored completely in the entire planning and response. For months. The government which did this has sky high approval ratings for its solid and decisive leadership. Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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Will we ever see a dissection of the Dutch government's handling of Covid you think?
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An insane mind posted:Will we ever see a dissection of the Dutch government's handling of Covid you think? No. Media has decided that the government handling was excellent and all that could have been done, no one could have known etc. etc. You can see how no one cares about this topic anymore except disgruntled nerds like us. There will be some documentary in a year or two on TV about how this could have actually gone much better but everyone will agree that they acted on the best information available (demonstrably false) and that's it.
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