About the influencers at Op1
A table full of influencers at Op1 last night, because the RIVM thinks it's an excellent idea to use ‘this kind’ - as Sander Schimmelpenninck called them - to convey the message about the corona measures. Welmoed and Sander had to know the details.
Who was at the table? Yara Michels, Dave Roelvink, Tisjeboy Jay, and Jamie Li, who engaged in conversation with journalist Doortje Smithuijsen (who understands influencers) and special corona envoy Feike Sijbesma. First of all, a bow for the editing, because they brilliantly cut the head of Mr. Sijbesma between the remarkable statements of especially (it must be said) Jay and Dave.
On Twitter, there was quite a stir during Op1 surrounding Dave Roelvink, because he openly spoke out against the spread of the virus (…). Yes, let this statement sink in for a moment. He finds it very strange that prostitutes can do their work but he can't hug his mother. Dave finds it difficult to take the virus seriously because of the measures that have been taken, he says. Another golden angle from Roelvink.
I would really like to explain what Tisjeboy Jay said, but beyond the fact that he makes a numerical comparison between flu and corona because he is good at accounting and a very long story about an old cigarette advertisement, I can't really go further. I was always glad that Sander Schimmelpenninck interrupted to remind Tisjeboy Jay that he wasn't there to discuss whether the measures make any sense. Although you seem to be able to find vlog after vlog on YouTube if you really want to know what he has to say about it.
It seems to me that the RIVM has already found two influencers who can be on the list.
Then Yara and Jamie Li; they can call them as far as I'm concerned. I was relieved when Yara took the floor. She explained that she doesn't have the medical knowledge to advise anything, but she does try to support her followers mentally. Just like Jamie Li, who shows in her vlogs that she doesn't hug friends and wears masks where necessary, even though she could easily cut those images out, according to her. Yara suggested mixing the online figurehead with an expert and voilà: the RIVM has the start of its campaign.
The moral of the story, which everyone fortunately agreed on in the end, is that the youth must remain critical. Although corona envoy Feike Sijbesma did emphasize that there is some logic in the one-and-a-half-meter message from the RIVM. Because, as he said, the virus is difficult to transmit if you keep enough distance. Critical or not.
