Just a bit more about the press conference
Secretly, I think it's quite clever that Rutte and De Jonge suddenly – poof – hold a press conference. We can only get worked up for a small day about what is to come. Or actually a morning, because the advice from the Outbreak Management Team typically leaks out in the afternoon and then it's just waiting for the big confirmation from Mark and Hugo.
It seems like we can relax a bit again, the belt can be loosened a notch. It's legal again to wander through the Hema, without having to rush through a shopping list at record speed and immediately dash home. As long as it’s not too crowded and you can keep one and a half meters apart, which people find difficult according to a message from NU.nl. At home, everything is fine (that seems obvious to me because your rules apply there), outside too (you are free to jump into any ditch or run in another direction), but in the supermarket, we seem to find one and a half meters difficult.
Someone suddenly appears next to you and reaches into the egg rack where you are already looking for eggs. That bottleneck at the cereal aisle where there are no options to move aside. The junction around the dates, where they come together from the pears, from the endive, and from the pre-packaged lettuce. In principle, nothing is wrong, you would think, as long as we give each other space, until the person appears who doesn't care about keeping distance. What then?
In public transport, face masks will be required from June 1, until then the same rules apply as before. This seemed quite difficult for people from Weesp, because this morning a train to Amsterdam was evacuated because it was too crowded. No one wanted to get off to give each other space (?) and so the police cleared the train. I can hardly comprehend that you voluntarily sit with too many people in a train that is meant for the person with a vital profession, but maybe that's just me?
Or that one vague acquaintance who says you should get lost when you indicate that you would like to keep your distance. The last time I checked, I could still indicate whether I wanted someone to come near me, but now you quickly get labeled as a drama queen or exaggerated.
Giving each other space, to keep that space. It seems to me the solution, now let's hope that everyone understood it this way last night.
