Thank you.Not to jump in, but... I just got back to Canada from Amsterdam last week, so I have all the links.
Current information about COVID-19 | RIVM
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has reached an endemic stage in the Netherlands, regarding Omicron and its sub-variants. RIVM will continue monitoring the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other viruses.www.rivm.nl
Currently at 5560 positive cases, 276 deceased.
Apparently that would be best for the US economy so we can get fired back up by Easter...you do realize Chapek may not get a bonus this year, right? How is he supposed to pay for his kids’ nannies who are helping them distance learn while he runs the company by WebEx?I thought they already had legal euthanasia? Why not put all of the old people who get it out of their misery quickly in a humane fashion?
Not surprising. The netherlands has one of the lowest ICU beds per capita in all of Europe. They rank about 26 out of 30 European countries, with about half as the number of Italy.
84% testing negative makes me think they are testing anyone and everyone that wants one regardless of whether they are showing symptoms.
A few years after they implemented legalized euthanasia in Netherlands, I read a news story that said they did an audit. Although 10s of thousands of people had already been euthanized, the audit found that in very few cases had the proper procedures been followed I.e. the checks and balances. Presumably that meant, in many cases the staff in govt seniors homes were bumping off old people who either had no close family, or else the family was being lied to that "they really wanted it".I thought they already had legal euthanasia? Why not put all of the old people who get it out of their misery quickly in a humane fashion?
As of today, it's 5,560 cases and 276 deaths. They have stopped testing people with mild symptoms, so who knows what the real numbers are. The report from the last 24 hours was 811 new cases and 63 new deaths, so it seems to be accelerating.
Seems to be the attitude.I thought they already had legal euthanasia? Why not put all of the old people who get it out of their misery quickly in a humane fashion?
Indeed. I know people in the US have valid complaints about how authorities have handled the outbreak. Believe me, though, Dutch authorities haven't been covering themselves in glory either, and it has laid bare how much funding they have stripped out of the health system. It's no wonder they're trying to convince people to go and quietly die at home as they'll be hitting ICU capacity very soon at this rate. They're already sending convoys of ambulances to move patients to different hospitals around the country from the hardest hit regions.
The guy who broke quarantine to go to the father daughter dance was from Kentucky, but his grandfather on his mother’s side was a Yankees fan so there is a connection
Let’s send them out on ice floesI thought they already had legal euthanasia? Why not put all of the old people who get it out of their misery quickly in a humane fashion?
If the number doubles every 3 days it will surpass the 150K before May 1. None of this is about current stats.
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Makes sense as to why it's so low then. I wonder what the ratio of negatives looks like in a state where you have to beg and plead to be tested.... Can't imagine it would be this high. This is one of the areas where with limited tests out there they need a more standardized way to allocate them. At the very least with a standard method you might get a better idea of which states are really starting to hurt and which ones are artificially low from lack of testing.
