As another Dutchman, you are wrong. We did have mandates! You are confusing yourself with semantics. That is if you wanted to go to a restaurant, take your kids to a museum, etc you needed to show your vax-status or get tested every day. The Dutch corona-app was used heavily!
And this was enforced by both authorities and voluntary by man…
As another Dutchman, you are wrong. We did have mandates! You are confusing yourself with semantics. That is if you wanted to go to a restaurant, take your kids to a museum, etc you needed to show your vax-status or get tested every day. The Dutch corona-app was used heavily!
And this was enforced by both authorities and voluntary by many shop holder sheep.
The only reason they did not go further is because existing law forbid sharing medical information. Employers had asked for that, as well as hospitals. They wanted enthusiastically to go further. The government had already agreed to look at changing the law, but just did not have time before Omicron ended it all.
Protest were small and limited to only a few places. Most people did not so much agree, but silently just went along. It did depend on where you live. In Amsterdam my brother reported that some restaurants simply had a "don't ask don't tell", but large protests were virtually non-existent outside a handful of cities and only then very limited in time. I know as I was frustrated on how complacent people were.
I agree, but because I also know first-hand what happened in Latvia, it was nothing to compare to Netherlands. That level of whole nation totalitarianism was/is hard to meet in Netherlands. With that I do not approve anything what happened in the Netherlands.
As another Dutchman, you are wrong. We did have mandates! You are confusing yourself with semantics. That is if you wanted to go to a restaurant, take your kids to a museum, etc you needed to show your vax-status or get tested every day. The Dutch corona-app was used heavily!
And this was enforced by both authorities and voluntary by many shop holder sheep.
The only reason they did not go further is because existing law forbid sharing medical information. Employers had asked for that, as well as hospitals. They wanted enthusiastically to go further. The government had already agreed to look at changing the law, but just did not have time before Omicron ended it all.
Protest were small and limited to only a few places. Most people did not so much agree, but silently just went along. It did depend on where you live. In Amsterdam my brother reported that some restaurants simply had a "don't ask don't tell", but large protests were virtually non-existent outside a handful of cities and only then very limited in time. I know as I was frustrated on how complacent people were.
I agree, but because I also know first-hand what happened in Latvia, it was nothing to compare to Netherlands. That level of whole nation totalitarianism was/is hard to meet in Netherlands. With that I do not approve anything what happened in the Netherlands.